Hackfest2016 Topics

Please add topics you would like to discuss or work you would like to see done at the hackfest.

Other pages: Hackfest2016, Hackfest2016 Attendees.

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Create Agenda
3. Hacking:
   1. Tackle GTK3 flickering bug. (Blocker for 0.92?)
   2. Fix rendering artifacts due to tiling (and feTile rendering).
   3. Selection - boost multiindex (GSoC project?)
   4. Path offsetting in 2geom. (Pull in code from helper/geom-pathstroke.cpp?)
   5. CMake build
   6. Build against external 2geom
   7. Bug fixing
4. Infrastructure:
   1. Mailing lists off Sourceforge
   2. Git
   3. CI
   4. Unifying/coordinating Inkscape and 2geom development activity
5. Bugs
6. Performance
7. Code Review
8. Code Documentation
9. Roadmap Review
10. Accessibility

Work pages

• Killing Livarot
• Coordinate System flip
• Working with CMake
• CMake Tasks

Discussions

1. Fundraising
   1. Sponsorship rewards
2. Roadmap
3. Gtk3
4. C++11
5. Refactoring
6. Testing - Switch to Google test
7. Plugins
8. 2Geom Maintenance
9. Style dialog and Selections (both GSoC projects)
10. Hardware Acceleration
11. Community Development
12. Release Process + 0.92
13. Best route(roadmap) to enabling extensions to have more ability. E.g. Boolean ops. Via Dbus, Python API, ...
14. Features VS Usability. UX Design.

Topics from Inkscape's Google+ Page

1. Interface
   1. Larger/smaller icons
   2. Port to GTK3
   3. Sidebar menus/issues with multiple work spaces
   4. Expanded Layer menu showing all items.
   5. Dark/light theme
   6. Angle/length restraints with Bezier-Tool
   7. Flexible Tool order

1. Other
   1. Animation
   2. Linked text boxes for flow text
   3. Visual tearing, smooth zooming (Ctrl-Middle Mouse)
   4. Artistic brush library
   5. Custom brushes
   6. Multi-page
   7. Division of multiple paths
   8. Better AI Import/Export
   9. geoJSON importer

Action Items (things to be done soon after the hackfest)

• Krzysztof: test CMake build system on OSX and Windows