Doubt
by AAPP
Hello. I have a Windows Surface. My problem is that the icons like shapes
and Bezier and more are very small and I don't know how to enlarge it.
Thank you!
-Alejandro Perez
4 years, 6 months
Inkscape can be extremely frustrating
by K B
All I want to do to begin with is draw a simple Line Circle. (white
background with white inside the circle).
But instead it draws a dashed-rectangle with (4) little squares. Two
squares are on the rectangle and the other two are outside. So, I go into:
Edit, Preferences and the Circle it not even listed under Shapes! Crazy.
Does anybody know what I should do?
Thank you.
Ken
4 years, 6 months
improve organization of Extensions menu
by brynn
Hi Friends,
As part of my project to get all the known external extensions listed in
one place, and trying to organize them (using the current Extensions menu as a
starting place) I've realized that how the Extensions menu is organized might
need some improvement. I've also discussed it privately with a couple of other
users. So I thought I'd bring up the subject with developers.
For example.
1 -- Should Stylesheet be a submenu under Web?
2 -- Should Typography be a submenu under Text?
Currently, many extension makers seem to be making their own submenus
for their extensions. For people who use a lot of external extensions, I wonder
if their menus are harder to use. If we had the menu already organized, it
might inspire extension makers to put their extensions into the pre-existing
submenus, rather than make their own.
3 -- Should there be a Gcode submenu under Export? (more about Export submenu
below)
In my list, I've created a separate Gcode category. There are lots of
external extensions which produce gcode (approx 20). I don't know where they
would show up in the Extensions menu, yet (since I just now learned how to find
out). But as I said, it might help keep the menu clean, to have submenus ready
for the external extensions, even if there might not be any built-in extensions
for some submenus.
4 -- Should the current Gcodetools submenu appear within this proposed Gcode
submenu?
5 -- To accomodate external extensions, both Render and Export need to be
divided into several submenus.
6 -- I've also created a new category (for my list) Animation/Presentation
(currently 10 or 12 of them). It seems like the existing JessyInk submenu
should go under there (assuming we were to agree on adding such a submenu).
7 -- There are 3 external extensions which comprise a Boolean category. But
shouldn't Boolean be under the existing Modify Path submenu?
8 -- And once I get all the external ones organized, I guess other instances of
potentially improved organization might come to light.
If anyone else has any observations about improving the organization of
the Extensions menu, please feel free to make comments :-)
Yes, I realize a lot of developers are getting ready to go to Hackfest.
But I wanted to mention this, in case it might come up. Otherwise, it can still
be discussed, now or later.
Thank you very much,
brynn
4 years, 6 months
Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] improve organization of Extensions menu
by brynn
Ok, here's the feature request:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1790927
So those of you who have other suggestions, you can describe them there :-)
Thanks again!
brynn
-----Original Message-----
From: brynn
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 11:34 AM
To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net ; Mark Schafer
Cc: Andrew Kurn
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] improve organization of Extensions
menu
Hi Mark and all,
Wow, a user-configured menu! That never occurred to me. I wonder if
that would be hard to do, I mean for developers?
I've only recently learned how extensions are placed in the menu (by
code in the INX file). To me, it would seem logical to use the user directory
structure to form the menu. So for example, if a user wanted a Skateboard
submenu, they would put a Skateboard folder in their user extension directory.
But again, I have no idea how hard that would be to do.
But I think it's a good idea worth considering.
Someone else replied to me privately, who suggested that with so many
extensions that we have now, and considering the approx 300 external ones, it
might be useful to have something like an extension manager, where there could
be a search or filter type of feature, for locating the one you need. I guess
they mean like with tags to aid the searching/filtering.
Well, I guess I was hoping by having a discussion about this, it might
be possible to bypass the feature request route, where it sometimes seems like
we put things that need a nice long nap. But I suppose I should go ahead and
open a formal feature request.
I'll reply again shortly with a link. Thanks for the discussion!
All best,
brynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Schafer
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2018 9:54 PM
To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] improve organization of Extensions
menu
Hi Brynn,
I agree the current set is overloaded in some areas. E.g. Render (where most of
them are)
There's a good reason for allowing people to make their own. E.g. I have a few
under Skateboarding now.
In the past I have suggested adding:
- Folded forms - for sheetmetal, envelope, and construction approaches involving
sheets of some kind.
- Music
- Drawing - by which I mean technical drawing as well as more figurative tools.
(which are generally under Generate from path atm.)
Its my opinion that Custom and Render are too generic and that an extension
should try harder to determine what its good for.
However I acknowledge that an extension might be so generically useful that it
belongs there.
I'm still moving house (seems interminable) and still hoping to get back to this
and the extensions gitlab project.
On 9/4/2018 12:36 PM, C R wrote:
Thanks for the work, Brynn! I'd like to suggest that the "Render" category be
changed to "Generate", because "Render" in graphics is most often the generation
of raster graphics from data (such as vectors).
The rest of your proposal sounds good to me.
-C
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 1:11 AM brynn <brynn@...3089...> wrote:
Hi Friends,
As part of my project to get all the known external extensions listed in
one place, and trying to organize them (using the current Extensions menu as a
starting place) I've realized that how the Extensions menu is organized might
need some improvement. I've also discussed it privately with a couple of other
users. So I thought I'd bring up the subject with developers.
For example.
1 -- Should Stylesheet be a submenu under Web?
2 -- Should Typography be a submenu under Text?
Currently, many extension makers seem to be making their own submenus
for their extensions. For people who use a lot of external extensions, I wonder
if their menus are harder to use. If we had the menu already organized, it
might inspire extension makers to put their extensions into the pre-existing
submenus, rather than make their own.
3 -- Should there be a Gcode submenu under Export? (more about Export submenu
below)
In my list, I've created a separate Gcode category. There are lots of
external extensions which produce gcode (approx 20). I don't know where they
would show up in the Extensions menu, yet (since I just now learned how to find
out). But as I said, it might help keep the menu clean, to have submenus ready
for the external extensions, even if there might not be any built-in extensions
for some submenus.
4 -- Should the current Gcodetools submenu appear within this proposed Gcode
submenu?
5 -- To accomodate external extensions, both Render and Export need to be
divided into several submenus.
6 -- I've also created a new category (for my list) Animation/Presentation
(currently 10 or 12 of them). It seems like the existing JessyInk submenu
should go under there (assuming we were to agree on adding such a submenu).
7 -- There are 3 external extensions which comprise a Boolean category. But
shouldn't Boolean be under the existing Modify Path submenu?
8 -- And once I get all the external ones organized, I guess other instances of
potentially improved organization might come to light.
If anyone else has any observations about improving the organization of
the Extensions menu, please feel free to make comments :-)
Yes, I realize a lot of developers are getting ready to go to Hackfest.
But I wanted to mention this, in case it might come up. Otherwise, it can still
be discussed, now or later.
Thank you very much,
brynn
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4 years, 6 months
The one Inkscape frustration affecting me
by Steve Litt
Hi all,
Inkscape is one of the best pieces of software I use. It's sometimes
hard to use, but the concept of drawing is very complex, so there's
only so simple Inkscape can be made.
The one Inkscape thing that gets me is switching between having the
stroke grow or shrink with the object, when the object is grown or
shrunk, as opposed to having the stroke width stay constant.
I've given up and just scale rectangles in rectangle mode, or if I need
to grow something big (perhaps because it's in a group), I just have to
manually change the stroke width EDT (Every Darn Time).
I know there's a toggle for this somewhere, but I can't find it in the
docs or in experimentation. Wherever this toggle is, it should be
shouted from the rooftops in the Inkscape documentation, and also made
very obvious and prominent in the menu system, which is the best route
toward discovery.
By the way, help->Inkscape_Manual fails to bring up a web page on my
system. It would be great if you had a copy-and-pasteable (and perhaps
clickable) URL of the manual on the Help->About window.
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt
September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business
http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz
4 years, 7 months
organizing external extensions - need a little help
by brynn
Hi Friends,
I'm working on a project to list all the external extensions, on the
same page where I have all the best tutorials listed
(https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php)
I already have a list made -- approx 300 of them. And I've made an
attempt at organizing them. I'm using the current Extensions menu as a starting
place for categories. That seems like the most logical way in which users might
search for them (or expect to find them).
The Render and Export categories have so many that I've made
sub-categories. Plus I made a new one called Animation, which holds both
animation and presentation type of extensions.
But I'm stuck with approx 45 of them which I'm not sure where they would
belong. Plus, I might not have gotten the ones I did organize in the proper
place. Often extensions might fit in more than one category, but usually one is
better than the other.
I wonder if anyone might have some time, to help me out with this? I've
uploaded an ODT file as an attachment in this forum topic (which I've also
requested any forum members who might have time to help).
https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1261.0
For clarity, these are specifically what I need help with:
-- At the bottom (last 3 pages) is a category called "Unsure". Those are the
ones I need the most help with. Ideally I'd like all of them
categorized....except that there are several extensions I found which don't have
descriptions, and their titles aren't very helpful with knowing what they do
either. So there could realistically be a few left over which can't fit into a
category.
-- There are subcategories in Render and Export called "Other" (among several
other subcats). There should be several extensions from "Other" which can fit
into other subcategories.
-- Generally if you notice any that I put in the wrong place, please move them
to the correct place.
For anyone who can help, please just edit that file, and upload it
somewhere. (The file itself is just my working list. It's not going on the
webpage, so don't worry about the formatting or font. I'll deal with that when
I code the page.)
I really appreciate any help which anyone can offer. And I think it
will benefit the community as well, to have sort of a master list available, so
users don't have to spend so much time searching the internet.
Thank you very much,
brynn
4 years, 7 months
