Web Chat Review
by Martin Owens
Dear Users and Developers,
I've put together an integrated tutorial for the irc chat on
inkscape.org and I'd like a few users and support contributors to give
it a review:
https://inkscape.org/en/*users/chat/
You should see a few things are different now:
* You must be logged in to use the chat, previously you could be
anonymous. You even must have an email configured, so facebook and
twitter logins must update their user profile before chatting.
* There is the above guide which add the can_irc permission to a user's
account. Confirming they've seen every page (I shorted it to 4 pages).
* There's a new IRC bot that offers these new commands:
- webbot: whois [username] ; will tell you who a user is and a link to
their website profile, in case someone joins the chat asks a question
and then leaves without waiting.
- webbot: tell [username] [msg] ; will send an alert to the user with
a possible response. The default for website message alerts is to email
them too. So you can respond to someone who just left.
- Get Latest Art ; a bit of fun to return the latest item in the
Artwork category on the live site. Returns the link.
- If you want further integrations between irc and the website, this
is now possible. (maybe good for meetings in the future)
I'm hoping these tools will allow users to feel comfortable chatting
with us and also provision support contributors with what they need when
in chat.
The exact text of the above tutorial is up for review here. Please let
me know your suggestions by email on list.
Thanks everyone!
Best Regards, Martin Owens
7 years, 3 months
Difference difference
by Brynn
Hi Friends,
It seems like I should know the answer to this. But I don't recall
hearing about it.
Starting with these 2 rings, which have fill and no stroke:
http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/diff1.png
I duplicate both, and then Difference. At 100% zoom they look ok.
But zoom in (in this case, all the way, for best view) and you can see that
the Difference wasn't correct. http://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/diff2.png
It's not a huge amount, but I would expect there shouldn't be any
difference at all. This on Windows 7, 64-bit, sp1, Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit,
exe installer.
Is that a bug? Or is there some reason it's expected not to be
precise?
Thanks for your help :-)
brynn
7 years, 3 months
combine paths within a group
by Brynn
Hi Friends,
I needed to add some new paths to existing paths which were in a
group. And I hate nested groups. So rather than group the new path with
the original group, I decided to combine the new paths with one of the paths
inside the group. And I found that combining the new paths to the paths
inside the group, removed the new compound path from the group. Should that
happen?
Steps:
1 -- create 3 paths (or create 1 and duplicate twice)
2 -- place the 3 paths side by side (with or without space between)
3 -- group those 3 paths
4 -- draw a new path
5 -- drag it over beside the left path
6 -- with the Node tool, select the left path and the new path
7 -- Path menu > Combine
8 -- deselect all
9 -- switch to Selection tool and select the group
Notice that the original Group of 3 is now a Group of 2. The newly
created compound path has been ejected from the Group. The same thing
happens if you enter the group before combining. Should that happen?
I don't know why Inkscape should assume that I don't want this new
path in the group anymore. I can't say for a fact that this is different
behavior than in the past. But it seems like it is.
If this is expected, why? If not, this is on Windows 7, 64-bit,
sp1, with Inkscape 0.91, 32-bit (exe installer) and 64-bit (7z version).
Should be reported?
Thank you very much :-)
brynn
7 years, 4 months
erase
by Joanne Rancourt
I have a logo that I created in 2010 when I was confortable using inkscape. I have not used it for a while but would like to delete the date on it and keep the rest. A lovely user of this forum did it for me once but do you think I can find the file ? of course not, lol.
Is there any way I can just use a shape, circle perhaps, in white and lay it over the date so it will not show ? I could then save it as a jpg rather than a png and use it.
thanks for any advice,Joanne
7 years, 4 months
Inkscape Hackfest News
by Martin Owens
Inkscapistas,
Sorry for the delay everyone, but the news is ready to be published:
https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/04/16/what-happened-hackfest-2016/
You may share the link around. Click on photos, especially the one with
all hackers which is actually an embeded svg with hover css.
There's still some issues with the CSS on these news pages and the
manual process of including images wasn't great. But I wanted to get
this news article out before our next hackfest ;-) If anyone would like
to clean up the css, I'll be happy to take a patch.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
7 years, 4 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest News
by C R
Thanks for the update! The interactive picture additions are really cool
too!
-C
On 28 Apr 2016 4:31 am, "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
Inkscapistas,
Sorry for the delay everyone, but the news is ready to be published:
https://inkscape.org/en/news/2016/04/16/what-happened-hackfest-2016/
You may share the link around. Click on photos, especially the one with
all hackers which is actually an embeded svg with hover css.
There's still some issues with the CSS on these news pages and the
manual process of including images wasn't great. But I wanted to get
this news article out before our next hackfest ;-) If anyone would like
to clean up the css, I'll be happy to take a patch.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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7 years, 5 months
Filters -> Color -> Greyscale default values
by Sophoklis Goumas
Hello.
I've messed a little bit with Inkscape's:
Filters -> Color -> Greyscale values and now
I'm looking for the default ones.
Would anyone care to share them, please?
And, shouldn't there be a button to RESET those
values to the default ones, what do you think?
Thanks in advance,
Sophoklis
7 years, 5 months
Website access in China - Fix applied
by Martin Owens
Dear Inkscape Users and Developers,
After a lot of backwards and forwards between osuosl and fastly.net we
have put in place a solution for our website's access in China. The
problem was that our chinese visitors would be able to get the website,
but not any of the media (or downloads) because of their great firewall.
The solution was a CNAME from media.inkscape.org to fastly and some
special dns configuration which I barely understand to solve the issue
with access to fastly caches. (I copied and pasted what people said in
two tickets and acted as a manual ticket express for the professionals)
This solution is now live and I invite people in China to test the
website and please report back if they can see any issues. (and also if
they would like to translate pages) :-)
Best Regards, Martin Owens
7 years, 5 months
erase?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Since I am running Scientific Linux 7.2 (RHEL clone), I am
probably not running the latest Inkscape:
$ rpm -qa inkscape
inkscape-0.48.4-15.el7.x86_64
I tried Inkcape out to create a graphics for a tech manual.
I managed to find everything I need in DuckDuckGo (Google
without the spying). I was impressed.
One thing I never figured out (and had to use GIMP) was
how to erase a section. All the stuff I found on the web
made no sense to me and I couldn't find things.
Exactly how to I erase something? (I don't mind
over writing with a while brush, as I did in GIMP.)
Many thanks,
-T
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