terminology - help needed
by bulia byak
>1. One
>2. Two
>3. Three
ALmost perfect, but unfortunately only works by referring to the original
mailing list thread :)
>Lose the plurality: command bar, tool control bar, toolbox.
I think losing the plurality only makes sense if we combine words into one,
e.g. "commandbar", otherwise it's confusing (which command? which tool
control?)
>1 Main Bar
It's not "main" in any reasonable sense imho.
>2 Tweak Bar ([Fine] Tuning?
Not descriptive enough.
>2 [Tool] Options?
They're not exactly options; they're controls that make sense for the tool
and let you use it.
>3. Tool Options bar
And 3 is not options either, it has tools themselves.
>Calling it the `toolbox' is a bit of a misnomer, since it's not a box
>anymore. `Tool Bar' is worse, unfortunately.
Yes.
>1. "Application Toolbar" (for generally-applicable actions)
Maybe, but kinda vague. Don't other bars belong to the same application?
> 2. "Modal Toolbar" (the horizontal modal action/option bar)
Correct technically, but confusing. A modal dialog is the one which freezes
the app; what does a modal toolbar freeze?
>3. "Tool Selector" (the vertical tool selector bar)
Hmm. "Please select the Selector tool on the Tool Selector." Not gonna work
:)
>1. "Function Bar"
Function or Functions? Anyway this seems to be a close equivalent to
"Commands bar".
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RE: [Inkscape-user] autosave ?
by bulia byak
>** ERROR **: file xml/repr-util.cpp: line 382 (int
>sp_repr_compare_position(SPRepr*, SPRepr*)): assertion failed:
>(sp_repr_parent(first) == sp_repr_parent(second))
>aborting...
>Aborted
Please try to reproduce it and mark what you were doing for it to crash. At
least, which boolean op caused this?
>So I'm appealing to anyone who can create an autosave :-)
We do have an autosave, it just does not always work :)
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terminology - help needed
by bulia byak
There are going to be three "toolbars" in Inkscape:
1. Under the menu, horizontal, with buttons for common non-tool-specific
operations such as Open, Save, etc.
2. Below 1, horizontal, with too-specific buttons and controls (exists now
and is called "top panel" or "aux toolbar").
3. Vertical at the left, with tool buttons.
The question is: How to call them? They are all "toolbars" technically but
using the word "toolbar" without distinction is going to be very confusing.
Even using "toolbar" for 3 only is going to be confusing because people are
used to calling "toolbars" any horizontal rows of buttons.
So the names need to be unique but at the same time descriptive and short.
Most importantly, they must stick. "Top panel" for 2 did not stick, somehow.
Here is the best I could think of:
1. Commands bar
2. Tool controls bar
3. Toolbox
Any other ideas?
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autosave ?
by Florent
hello,
I've just got a problem,
I worked on a Tux ... just using a boolean operation when ...arg... a
bug closed my inkscape window...:-(
** ERROR **: file xml/repr-util.cpp: line 382 (int
sp_repr_compare_position(SPRepr*, SPRepr*)): assertion failed:
(sp_repr_parent(first) == sp_repr_parent(second))
aborting...
Aborted
I used the latest version CVS (0.39) and I know ... I use it at my own risk
So I'm appealing to anyone who can create an autosave :-)
Thanks,
Florent
18 years, 7 months
Easy testing of Inkscape builds on Linux with Autopackage
by Bryce Harrington
Hi Guys,
One of the cool new features for this upcoming release is something
called 'autopackage', which if it works, promises to make it very easy
to install Inkscape on Linux, especially if you're using an RPM-based
system.
But to make sure this works we need folks to test it out. It's easy to
do so. Here are some screenshots so you can see what it'll look like:
http://autopackage.org/gallery.html
First, download this file:
http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.39cvs.package
Next, follow the four steps on this page:
http://autopackage.org/docs/howto-install/index.html
Finally, write down anything that you find confusing or have problems
with during the installation or while using the program, and put your
feedback into the bug tracker for Inkscape. (See Report Bugs on the
Inkscape website.)
Note that each day you can re-run the .package file to update to the
latest and greatest inkscape code.
Thanks,
Bryce
18 years, 7 months
Re: [Clipart] [Fwd: SVG Open 2004 - Paper Acceptance]
by Bryce Harrington
Congrats Jon, sounds like it's going to be a very interesting paper.
:-)
Bryce
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
> Arg...I though I'd be online all the time once in Korea, but just have
> now found a place to get wireless. I'm forwarding my acceptance to
> SVGOPEN (its at the bottom of the email).
>
> Here are the comments from the reviewers:
>
>
> It sounds great to have a paper about content generation. Many SVG
> papers are about applications, not art. It would be good to hear about
> any other artwork collections and how their communities contribute and
> describe the experience with the SVG community so far. Suggestions for
> increasing knowledged about this project would be good too.
>
>
>
> SVG is a lot about sharing kowledge and artwork. The Open Clip Art
> Library, as the abstract suggested, a combination of high quality
> artwork and RDF metadata, is a very welcome contribution for both the
> Open Source and SVG community. I am myself a regular user of Open Source
> software and appreciate the steady progress of Open source graphics
> applications. Keep up the good work and looking forward to your
> presentation in Tokyo!
>
>
> I will start working on this paper later in the summer, but it is good
> to know that we have promotion for our coming work...
>
> Jon
>
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> > From: Jun Fujisawa <fujisawa.jun@...150...>
> > To: jon@...87...
> > Subject: SVG Open 2004 - Paper Acceptance
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:00:57 +0900
> >
> > Hello Jonathan,
> >
> > SVG Open 2004 Reviewing Committee is happy to inform you that your
> > abstract has been accepted for the presentation.
> >
> > "Introduction to the Open Clip Art Library"
> >
> > Please login with your account to see the feedback from the reviewers.
> > Our apologies for the delay of notification.
> >
> > <http://www.svgopen.org/2004/login.do>
> >
> > For the preparation and submission of final paper, please follow the
> > instruction on the Presenter Instructions page.
> >
> > <http://www.svgopen.org/2004/presenter_en.html>
> >
> > Thanks and looking forward to meet you at the conference.
>
18 years, 7 months
Docking
by Adam Pearson
Hi all
Using Gimp 2 on Windows XP, I "undocked" the tool options palette by mistake
- how can I re-dock this? Note that on my (XP) display, there is no double
line at the supposed docking position at the foot of the box (if you follow
me!).
I would send a screen shot but I think attachments are stripped by the list
server?
Adam
18 years, 7 months
svg_annotate (and announcing SVG::Metadata 0.05)
by Bryce Harrington
Since adding metadata to your SVG files is cumbersome, especially when
you have a lot of files, I've written a script 'svg_annotate' to perform
this work.
This script is now included within SVG::Metadata, and takes advantage of
its data structure.
You can download it from CPAN, here:
http://search.cpan.org/~bryce/SVG-Metadata-0.05/
The README has instructions for installing it. Briefly:
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ su
# make install
You will probably also need to install XML::Twig. You can also get this
from CPAN and install it the same way as above:
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIROD/XML-Twig-3.15.tar.gz
Then, to use svg_annotate to add metadata to all files under directory
'my_art':
$ svg_annotate -a "My Name" my_art/
This will add metadata to any files that don't already have it,
including setting the license to Public Domain and the title to
"My Name - <filename>". (You can override this if you want; see the
manual page for svg_annotate on CPAN).
Let me know if you run into issues.
Bryce
18 years, 7 months
Project Status May 31, 2004
by Bryce Harrington
Project Status
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
The past two weeks have seen a great deal of progress on a number of
important efforts, the most notable one, of course, is the Pango
conversion. Several people have been hard at work researching,
implementing, and testing this out, but the major thanks go to Fred
for his patch that gets us much further along than we had expected
for this release.
Additionally, pattern fills were introduced, orphan collection was
created to garbage collect leftover gradients/markers, and there was
additional experimentation and changes to how inserted images are
handled to make them more useful and usable. Mental has been working on
C++-ifying a lot of code, most notably the sp_object_* to SPObject::*.
Ted has introduced a number of improvement to the file dialog and file
handling, adding better support for other file formats like EPS. Ishmal
has introduced his EMCAScript code into the main codebase and is working
on hooking it up for use with SVG files. Peter is working on fixing the
units to be more sensible (px, pixel, etc. are proving to be rather
confusing). More details on these changes are in the ReleaseNotes in
Wiki and will all be included in the 0.39 release.
There have also been a number of noteworthy non-coding events for
Inkscape the past two weeks. An article by Bryce about Inkscape was
published on OSNews earlier this month. It was picked up by Slashdot
and other sites, and brought in a good bit of traffic. Several people
are helping to move the nightly snapshots to less bandwidth-sensitive
machines. The Open Clip Art Library has been picking up a lot of new
contributions from artists, and is currently focusing on better
capturing the metadata in the SVG files. Cedric has expressed an intent
to develop an Inkscape Manual, based on the manual he had written for
Sodipodi. This will nicely augment our tutorials, providing a more
advanced reference for knowledgeable users. Rejon will be giving a
presentation on Inkscape and OCAL at the SVGOpen.
Whew! And there's probably a lot more that I forgot! As you can see,
it's been a very actively busy couple of weeks and tons of stuff has
been achieved.
Now that the Pangoification work is looking like it will be done soon,
it is time to think towards making a freeze and working towards
packaging the 0.39 release. We probably need another week or two for
further code settling and bug fixing, and probably a week-long freeze
prior to the release. So that suggests a late-June/early-July timeframe
for the release, but we'll see how things come together.
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