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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Yes, sorry, I had been swamped with day-time work until the end of last week and I'm only now getting into vacation mode. The good news however is that during the next week I'll be able to spend 1-2 hours per day on Marble again. Afterwards I plan to spend a whole lot more time on Marble for the following 3 weeks since I will be on vacation.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">So welcome to you and all the other students who got recently involved with Marble. It's great to see so much progress and dedication. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Regarding the crosshairs plugin: That's indeed a nice piece of code in Marble that is good to start with. The reason is that the crosshair is provided as a plugin. Check out the code at:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">src/plugins/render/crosshairs.<br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Another idea for a junior job: Add support for PNGs as a source file format (right now we only support SVG). </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Best Regards,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Betreff: [Marble-devel] Contact with Marble</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Datum: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 09:58:44 +0100</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Hello,</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"> As a student who just started discovering Marble, I still have many uncertainties regarding it. I am willing to get involved in this project but I find it difficult to find a place to begin. I have the following questions:</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; background-color: #ffffff;">• </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Is there a task list or something similar for getting started? I have seen the junior jobs on bugs.kde, but I they seem difficult when compared to some other bugs I've seen patched in the past years.</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; background-color: #ffffff;">• If I have an idea for a simple feature (for example, hiding the crosshairs while a "Place information" box is open so it doesn't get on top of the writing), could anyone give me directions to the right code sections in the sources? The project is quite large and it is complicated to understand the logic and terminology without a bit of guidance.</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"> Razvan Chitu, CS student from Romania</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br /></span></p>
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