Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 204403
Inkboard feature disabled
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:41 EST
Description of problem: as said in the spec file : Inkboard feature disabled pending further security tests since Jun 28 2006. What's the status of the security tests ? When this feature will be enabled ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Inkboard feature enabled Additional info:
Good question ;-) Do you know if it actually works ? Last time i tried it, it would crash in the loudmouth library, but that was a while ago. I'll aks the question upstream.
I didn't try it since a while but i would like to test it and see how it is improved ...
Discussion is ongoing at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30376423&forum_id=36054 It probably won't be enabled before the 0.44.1 release.
And now that 0.44.1 release is available in extras, inkboard could be enabled ?
Upstream still doesn't enable it by default... If you have some time, I would love to hear some feedback on its stability (you can compile it from the SRPM with rpmbuild --with inkboard). I know one of the problems is that it will only work with specific Jabber servers...
I have used a --with inkboard build of this and version 0.44.1. I tested it with two other users (individually) using the same build and the jabber.org server. We pretty much just "tooled around" for a bit... It was surprisingly responsive. Pasting .svgs worked and appeared on the other end. It never crashed. I can't make any comments on how secure it is though. I can say it works and it's cool though. :)
Thanks for the investigation. 0.45 is just around the corner, so it sounds reasonable to enable the feature then.
0.45 is now out...
I know i know, a RL emergency kicked in and delayed my packaging work. I have a pre1 src.rpm on www.pooloshark.org/inkscape/ if anyone has spare cycles to do some preliminary testing, the spec should "just work" with 0.45... I still have doubts whether inkboard is mature enough for inclusion, a feeling that is shared by most of the upstream folks (the GUI is also not intuitive), but on the other hand it won't improve if nobody uses it...
Fixed.