about screen (splash screen) version incomplete

[Bart Van Audenhove]

Help -> About (splash screen) says in upper right corner: "Inkscape 0.92.0 unknown".
Version 0.92.0+66~ubuntu16.04.1

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Windows 32-bit build not affected (tested with the 7z version).

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

The "unknown" string comes from "CMakeScripts/inkscape-version.cmake".

- Normally it's not displayed as "bzr revno" is used when available
- In the official distribution tarballs released by bryce
  this is set to something meaningful manually.

Therefore this only shows when not using an official tarball and running from a non-versioned directory.
We might think about omitting the revision number altogether in that case as a convenience...

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

@Bart: this is the version from the ppa, right?

[Bart Van Audenhove (bart-vanaudenhove)]

@Hachmann: correct, PPA https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Should we ping Alex Valavanis about this?

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

(it's just a minor thing, so probably not worth a recompile, just for info, for 0.92.1)

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

@Alex, is there something you can do with the PPA?