From: buliabyak Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:59:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ac4ed77ff09495c8aecf82def9efeacdc3739b1;p=inkscape.git update --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 88062d39b..a12b36c06 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ Release Notes - From Inkscape Wiki - Contents * 1 Inkscape 0.44: overview @@ -61,7 +59,7 @@ * 10 Snapping * 11 Sublayers * 12 Markers - * 13 Extensions + * 13 Extension effects * 14 Formats * 15 Miscellaneous shortcuts * 16 Miscellaneous improvements @@ -71,9 +69,10 @@ * 20 Known problems * 20.1 Problems with libgc-6.7 - * 20.2 Namespaces may need fixing - * 20.3 Beware of defective themes on Linux - * 20.4 Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it + * 20.2 Problems with "Composite" option of X.org + * 20.3 Namespaces may need fixing + * 20.4 Beware of defective themes on Linux + * 20.5 Make sure to remove menus.xml if you have it * 21 Previous releases @@ -90,7 +89,8 @@ Inkscape 0.44: overview * Clipping and masking support - * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including Xara X emulation + * Configurable keyboard shortcuts, including optional Xara X + compatibility * Docked color palette in the editing window @@ -406,7 +406,8 @@ Inkscape Preferences dialog Not only was the Inkscape Preferences dialog completely rewritten and redesigned, with numerous bugs fixed in the rewrite. - * The dialog is now fully GNOME-HIG compliant. + * The old tabbed dialog is gone; the new dialog fits much betters with + the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. * As a new feature, the Simplify threshold can now be set with more precision. @@ -450,10 +451,11 @@ Configurable keyboard Inkscape's keyboard shortcuts are now configurable! - At this time, not all Inkscape actions can have their shortcuts - customized. However, the majority of actions, including everything you see - in the menus, are already configurable, and we're working on making more - actions configurable. + There is no graphical users interface at this time, and not all Inkscape + actions can have their shortcuts customized. However, if you do not mind + editing a configuration file, the majority of actions, including + everything you see in the menus, can already have their keys changed. + We're working on making more actions configurable. On startup, Inkscape reads its keyboard shortcuts from share/keys/default.xml. That file is a copy of inkscape.xml in the same @@ -959,16 +961,29 @@ Pasting size Snapping - * In addition to be able to snap to guides and grids, you can now snap - to objects or their paths or nodes. Be aware, however, that this is - both experimental code - there may be surprises - and you can easily - find yourself in a situation where inkscape tries to snap your 1000 - nodes to 1000 surrounding objects, something that will take over your - CPU. So be careful what option you turn on in the Document Preferences - dialog and where you use it. - - * Guidelines are made easier to pick: now you don't need to position - mouse exactly over a guideline to activate it, instead there's a small + * In addition to snapping to guides and grids, you can now snap to other + objects' paths and/or nodes. As with grid and guide snapping, you can + separately enable snapping of bboxes to objects and/or snapping of + nodes to objects. Be aware, however, that this is experimental code - + there may be surprises. It may also be slow in large documents with + thousands of objects. + + * In addition to the snap sensitivity sliders in Document Preferences + (which set snap distances in px), there are Always snap checkboxes + (separately for object, grid and guide snapping) which force snapping + at any distance. + + * Grid snapping now applies only to the visible grid lines. For example, + if you have zoomed out so that only every 10th grid line is visible, + snapping will only apply to these visible lines. In addition, default + grid snap sensitivity is set to "Always snap". This will hopefully + reduce the number of "snapping does not work" complaints from users + who didn't zoom in close enough to see that snapping does in fact + work, but only at sub-px distances to the 1px-spaced grid. At the same + time, you can still snap to finely grained distances if you zoom in. + + * Guidelines are made easier to pick. Now you don't need to position + mouse exactly over a guideline to activate it; instead there's a small position tolerance (1 screen pixel on each side of the guideline). @@ -1015,17 +1030,20 @@ Pasting size you can get a good approximation of a razor wire. - Extensions + Extension effects - * The Effects menu is now always on, it's no longer an "experimental - feature". The preference setting to enable the menu has been removed. + * The Effects menu is now officially on and no longer an optional + "experimental feature" as in past versions. The preference setting to + enable the menu has been removed. Inkscape 0.44 comes with about 30 + effects that perform a variety of useful tasks, such as path blending, + randomization, function plotting etc. - * Python extensions (which includes almost all currently available - extensions) work on Windows out of the box, using a copy of Python - shipping with Inkscape. The only minor inconvenience is that when an - effect is launched, you get an empty console window that stays on - while the effect is doing its work. (Don't close that window, it will - disappear by itself when the effect is finished.) + * Python effects (which includes almost all currently available effects) + work on Windows out of the box, using a copy of Python shipping with + Inkscape. The only minor inconvenience is that when an effect is + launched, you get an empty console window that stays on while the + effect is doing its work. (Don't close that window, it will disappear + by itself when the effect is finished.) * A new Python effect, Render > LaTeX formula, allows you to type in any LaTeX formula and get a vector object with the TeX rendition of this @@ -1107,10 +1125,10 @@ Pasting size * The new XCF output extension exports all top-level elements (i.e. layers and objects directly under root) as PNGs and assembles them - into an XCF for procesing in the Gimp. Requires Python, PyXML and - Gimp. Gimp 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A - version of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path. - Does not function in Windows. + into an XCF for procesing in GIMP. Requires Python, PyXML and GIMP. + GIMP 2.2.x or above must be in the path and be named gimp. A version + of Inkscape 0.44 or above must be accessible from the path. Does not + function in Windows yet. Miscellaneous shortcuts @@ -1327,10 +1345,11 @@ Pasting size file type selections, and extension names can all be translated by translators. - * Now, 38 languages are translated, of which 12 significantly: Catalan, + * Now, 38 languages are translated, of which 14 significantly: Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Lituanian, - Russian, Slovene, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Average - translation ratio has increased from 49% to 55%. + Russian, Slovene, Serbian, Latine Serbian, Simplified Chinese and + Traditional Chinese. Average translation ratio has increased from 49% + to 57%. * Some new translations of tutorials have been brought by contributors : Czech, Portuguese (Brazil) and Russian. @@ -1353,9 +1372,24 @@ Pasting size Problems with libgc-6.7 - * Inkscape will hang or even crash when linked with this (newest) - version of the Boehm garbage collection library. Make sure you use - libgc-6.5 or 6.6 until this is sorted out. + * Inkscape will hang or crash when linked with this (newest) version of + the Boehm garbage collection library. Make sure you use libgc-6.5 or + 6.6 until this is sorted out. + + + Problems with "Composite" option of X.org + + * On Linux, Inkscape may crash if you have the "Composite" option + enabled in your X.org configuration. To disable this option, comment + out this line in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf: + + Option "Composite" "Enable" + + so it becomes + + #Option "Composite" "Enable" + + and restart X. Namespaces may need fixing @@ -1415,6 +1449,6 @@ Pasting size Retrieved from "http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes" - This page has been accessed 18,760 times. This page was last modified - 19:56, 9 June 2006. + This page has been accessed 18,942 times. This page was last modified + 19:41, 10 June 2006.