From b02e924a298e097b4ed647d39f6bf35550147877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: buliabyak Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:28:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update from wiki --- NEWS | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index af9358c8a..5318138a3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ * 19 Internal * 20 Known problems - * 20.1 Problems with libgc-6.7 + * 20.1 Problems with some Debian libgc-6.7 packages * 20.2 Problems with "Composite" option of X.org * 20.3 Namespaces may need fixing * 20.4 Beware of defective themes on Linux @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Layers dialog * In the dialog, you can click on a layer to make it current, as well as toggle layers visible/hidden and locked/unlocked. You don't need to - make a layer current to toggle it visibility or lock status. + make a layer current to toggle its visibility or lock status. * A hierarchical tree of layers is represented by a tree-like display in the dialog. You can expand or collapse branches of the tree to make @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ Inkscape Preferences dialog Not only was the Inkscape Preferences dialog completely rewritten and redesigned, with numerous bugs fixed in the rewrite. - * The old tabbed dialog is gone; the new dialog fits much betters with + * The old tabbed dialog is gone; the new dialog fits much better with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. * As a new feature, the Simplify threshold can now be set with more @@ -576,13 +576,13 @@ Node tool nodes of that fragment and press Ins a few times to populate it with nodes.) - Moreover, node sculpting is sensitive to pressure of your tablet pen. If - you press slightly, your curve will have a narrow sharp tip (i.e. the - nearest neighbors of your dragged node will move only a bit); if you press - hard, the curve's tip will be wide and blunt (i.e. the nearest neighbors - will move almost as much as the dragged node). (Hint: to stop dragging - without losing your shape, first release Alt and then lift the tip of the - pen.) + Moreover, node sculpting is pressure-sensitive when you are using a tablet + pen. If you press slightly, your curve will have a narrow sharp tip (i.e. + the nearest neighbors of your dragged node will move only a bit); if you + press hard, the curve's tip will be wide and blunt (i.e. the nearest + neighbors will move almost as much as the dragged node). (Hint: to stop + dragging without losing your shape, first release Alt and then lift the + tip of the pen.) There are many possible applications of the sculpting technique. To take a simple example, selecting all nodes of an ellipse-like shape and @@ -1345,11 +1345,11 @@ Pasting size file type selections, and extension names can all be translated by translators. - * Inkscape is now significantly translated to 17 languages: Basque, + * Inkscape is now significantly translated to 18 languages: Basque, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, - Norwegian (bokmaal dialect), Polish, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic and - Latin), Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish and Traditional - Chinese. Additionally, 21 more languages have some level of + Norwegian (Bokmaal dialect), Polish, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic and + Latin), Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, + and Vietnamese. Additionally, 21 more languages have some level of translation. Average translation ratio has increased from 49% to 59% in this release. @@ -1372,26 +1372,20 @@ Pasting size Known problems - Problems with libgc-6.7 + Problems with some Debian libgc-6.7 packages - * 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. + * Inkscape will hang or crash when linked with the first Debian packaged + version of the Boehm garbage collection library. This problem was + fixed in version 1:6.7-2 of the package. If you have libgc 6.7 on your + Debian-based system, make sure that you are using that version of the + package or later. 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. + * Some prereleases of inkscape-0.44 could crash if the "Composite" + option were enabled in X.org's configuration. This is not a problem in + the final release. Namespaces may need fixing @@ -1399,7 +1393,18 @@ Pasting size * Previous versions of inkscape sometimes silently saved documents with wrong namespace URIs. This has been fixed, but such corrupted documents will no longer load successfully. Such documents may require - their namespace declarations to be fixed by hand. + their namespace declarations to be fixed by hand. Correct namespace + URLs are as follows, with typical namespace prefixes given in + parenthesis: + + * Sodipodi (sodipodi): + http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd + * Inkscape (inkscape): http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape + * XLink (xlink): http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink + * SVG (svg or none): http://www.w3.org/2000/svg + * RDF (rdf): http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# + * Creative Commons (cc): http://web.resource.org/cc/ + * Dublin Core Metadata (dc): http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ Beware of defective themes on Linux @@ -1450,6 +1455,6 @@ Pasting size Retrieved from "http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes" - This page has been accessed 19,310 times. This page was last modified - 19:45, 13 June 2006. + This page has been accessed 20,078 times. This page was last modified + 09:07, 19 June 2006. -- 2.30.2