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Problem with Nautilus
by Lucas Mongiat 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi there, I am experiencing some troubles at opening .svg files. I was working with Inkscape for a month, and I found it pretty nice. The problems start yesterday. I was working on a .svg project and saved it to my desktop. Later I attempt to open it by cliking on the icon. The File Manager crashed out and froze my desktop. I worked for a while trying to fix the problem. Finally I opted for format the HD and start from zero. Again, today I experienced the same problem. I searched on internet and I found other people with the same problem, but without answers. Do you can give me a clue about how to solve this? Thaks Lucas

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our twitter account
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi, Since I'm in charge for news at inkscape.org for last couple of years, I'd like to make a much better use of our twitter account. Does anybody know who owns it? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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NFTDialog : I need a tutor in order to check my code
by Albin Manoël 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi developers, Thanks to Jasper van de Gronde and Jon Cruz for their answers on : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:NewFromTemplateSpec This weekend, I made some *GTKmm code* in order to design the NFT Dialog. The window is fully functional, but I need more informations about how can I read informations from an SVG file, how to generate a preview image and a lot of other stuffs. I give you my dirty code.* Please affect me a tutor*. See ya ! :-)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] funding inkscape developement
by Hans Meine 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Am Montag 23 August 2010, 10:06:09 schrieb J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...: > For me, free software is a little bit about not getting payed. ..by the users, yes. But many OSS programmers are getting paid by OSS supporting (and using) companies. Am Sonntag 22 August 2010, 18:11:12 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine: > There is one tricky thing here, however. Once you have people working > for money, it's important to maintain existing community of volunteers > who might feel less motivated to work for free when there are people > who want to works on things for money. Not many projects have such an > experience, and not all projects that have it can call it positive. I follow some KDE lists, and many KDE programmers are hired by SuSE/Trolltech/Nokia/... full-time. No problems here, also no social problems. There's the basic rule "who codes [much], decides [what he/she implements and how]" which applies in the same way to paid and unpaid developers. Also, I have seen people being funded in the SciPy community, e.g. to work on IPython refactoring for some months, by companies/institutions interested in specific features. In general, I would say that funding is welcomed in all cases, yet a) there needs to be someone who is willing and capable of doing the work, and b) the code needs to follow the same rules/review procedures to be accepted into the OSS project's trunk. HTH, Hans

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Instructions for Mac users
by Alexandre Prokoudine 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, Could anybody please have a look at http://inkscape.org/download/ and say whether instructions for Mac users still apply? The bit about Leopard (not Snow Leopard) and Xquartz is especially interesting (like never having installed X11 on Leopard before). Thanks in advance. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Inkscape 0.48 - Monday
by Joshua A. Andler 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hey all, I just wanted to let everyone know that it appears that we have the core packages necessary for release. I have one major task left (screenshots), which I just need to refine text for. If people want to do a final pass on the release notes and pr text, it's more than welcome. I'm taking the day/night off from Inkscape stuff, but will wrap up tomorrow for an announcement on Monday. For those who might be wondering, weekday releases seem to get more coverage than weekend releases. It really seems like people hit up slashdot, reddit, digg, etc. more during the workweek rather than the weekend. Cheers, Josh

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Gradient smoothness, dithering
by Xinfe Ewalavir 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi, I am currently doing a wallpaper in Inkscape, and I have noticed a strange thing about gradients : we can see the steps. Some other guys have also noticed this problem : http://inkscape-forum.andreas-s.net/topic/109624 (may 2007) The rendering is exactly the same in inkscape, png export and Firefox (and Chromium). I have tested in Safari (Mac), and it is fine (not 100% sure : fast test). Creating the same gradient with GIMP is fine : playing with brightness and contrast helps (contrast to ~110 and adjust brightness). See this picture : http://xinfe.free.fr/gradient.png After further investigation, I found out that when disabling the 'Dither' option, GIMP's result is exactly the same as Inkscape. So, is it possible to implement this feature for *.png exports (opt-in/out) ? Nice article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Digital_photography_and_image_processing I know that it's nearly nothing, but I noticed it in my wallpaper, and it's annoying me, now... Nevertheless, Inkscape is great ! Bye

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problems when opening file from 0.47 in 0.48
by Rafael Z. Frantz 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi all, I'm testing the 0.48 version and I've noticed that when opening an svg file created in version 0.47 in 0.48, some elements (arrows, in this specific case) that I had grouped with a main figure with other elements (rectangles, circles, etc..), now the arrows appears far away from the main figure in the canvas. Is that any known issue or problem ? Best regards, Rafael Z. Frantz PhD Student University of Sevilla - Spain http://www.tdg-seville.info/rzfrantz *Guaraná *for Enterprise Application Integration http://www.tdg-seville.info/rzfrantz/guarana Seeking for a paper? Try TDG Scholar at http://scholar.tdg-seville.info

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GSOC spatial indexes
by Vangelis Katsikaros 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi everyone I worked on the spatial indexes GSOc project, and made progress but unfortunately the last month has been quite problematic, due to external issues (nothing to do with GSOC or programing). So, I won't be able to deliver the project completed in time. However, I will continue the work (after a small break). I want it to be available for the 0.49 release and I hope that I'll have results by mid to end September. I'll soon upload the work I've done so far. Regards Vangelis __________________________________________________ ×ñçóéìïðïéåßôå Yahoo!; ÂáñåèÞêáôå ôá åíï÷ëçôéêÜ ìçíýìáôá (spam); Ôï Yahoo! Mail äéáèÝôåé ôçí êáëýôåñç äõíáôÞ ðñïóôáóßá êáôÜ ôùí åíï÷ëçôéêþí ìçíõìÜôùí http://mail.yahoo.gr

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Cannot compile on XP since rev. 9698
by Preben Soeberg 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Make error line 299: problem compiling: src/ui/dialog/filedialogimpl-win32.cpp: In function 'int Inkscape::UI::Dialog::<unnamed>::sanitizeWindowSizeParam(int, int, int, int)': src/ui/dialog/filedialogimpl-win32.cpp:103: error: 'lower' was not declared in this scope src/ui/dialog/filedialogimpl-win32.cpp: At global scope: src/ui/dialog/filedialogimpl-win32.cpp:100: warning: unused parameter 'minimum' Regards Preben

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Win32 Inkscape trunk build : gomp not found
by Yann Papouin 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, I'm trying to build Inkscape trunk on Win32, I have an issue on the link step, I'm using latest devlibs from launchpad: ##### link objects and library to create executable --- link / rc --- link / link ============ cmd ============ mingw32-g++ -o build/inkscape.exe -mwindows -mthreads build\inkres.o build\obj\main.o build\obj\winmain.o build\libinkscape.a -LC:\devlibs/lib -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpoppler -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpoppler-glib -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgobject-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgdk-win32-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpangowin32-1.0 -lgdi32 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpango-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpangocairo-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lcairo -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpoppler -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgtkmm-2.4 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lglibmm-2.4 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgobject-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl -LC:\devlibs/lib -lsigc-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgiomm-2.4 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgio-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgdkmm-2.4 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpangomm-1.4 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgdk-win32-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpangowin32-1.0 -lgdi32 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpango-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpangocairo-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lcairo -LC:\devlibs/lib -lcairomm-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -latkmm-1.6 -LC:\devlibs/lib -latk-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgtk-win32-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgdk-win32-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpangoft2-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lpango-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl -LC:\devlibs/lib -lfreetype -LC:\devlibs/lib -lfontconfig -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgthread-2.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl C:\devlibs/bin/libxml2.dll C:\devlibs/bin/libxslt.dll -LC:\devlibs/lib -lcairo -LC:\devlibs/lib -lcairomm-1.0 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lcairo -LC:\devlibs/lib -lwpg-0.1 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lwpd-0.8 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lwpg-stream-0.1 -LC:\devlibs/lib -lwpd-0.8 -liconv -LC:\devlibs/lib -lMagick++ -LC:\devlibs/lib -lMagickCore -LC:\devlibs/lib -lfontconfig -LC:\devlibs/lib -lfreetype -LC:\devlibs/lib -llcms -LC:\devlibs/lib -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lpng -ljpeg -ltiff -lpopt -lz -lgc -lws2_32 -lintl -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lm -lgomp -lpthreadGC2 -laspell -lmscms ============================= Make error line 479: LINK problem: c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: ne peut trouver -lgomp collect2: ld returned 1 exit status following is my build.bat set DEVLIBS_PATH=C:\devlibs set MINGW_PATH=C:\MinGW set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=C:\devlibs\lib\pkgconfig btool Any idea ?

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Bug #569238 “[dbus] get_desktop_new returns nothing”
by ~suv 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

a) Has anyone using the dbus API since it was merged with trunk noticed a regression with "desktop_new"? According to bug #569238 [1] "desktop_new no longer returns nil, it now times out. light testing with rectangle crashes inkscape (...)" (reported with current trunk built on fedora 13, dbusapi enabled) b) Related to the dbus API docs - would it be possible to make the documentation available on the Inkscape Wiki? Not every platform has the tools installed to build it using 'dbus/builddocs.sh' (e.g. on osx the list of (otherwise unneeded) dependencies in order to install 'xmlto' via MacPorts is huge) - yet users might be interested to read more about it. ~suv [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569238

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Inkscape 0.48 tagged and rolled -- Please don't announce
by Ted Gould 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

Howdy, So I've tagged and rolled the 0.48 release. Just as a reminder, please don't announce this widely as we want to let binary packagers get a chance to have binaries ready when people start rushing to pull down a copy. == Downloads == https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48/ == SHA1 Sums == a2ab9b34937cc4f2b482c9b3720d8fd4dc7b12e8 inkscape-0.48.0.tar.bz2 220ade981069a91d3afab9cbff75f65c75119da2 inkscape-0.48.0.tar.gz df32c39dfdb2072bf32ff71e7293c6bb84a53e26 inkscape-0.48.0.zip == MD5 Sums == fd8b17a3f06668603807176a77167bb9 inkscape-0.48.0.tar.bz2 bb94543b813157d83281657a89465d46 inkscape-0.48.0.tar.gz 26318c26b056be7813e3ea06a8244b88 inkscape-0.48.0.zip This is a pretty cool release, I'm excited about it. Thanks to everyone who contributed! --Ted

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status of git repository at <http://git.inkscape.org>?
by ~suv 15 Aug '10

15 Aug '10

During the last year several people asked on #inkscape (irc) about the git repository <git://git.inkscape.org/projects/inkscape.git> and its current state (the git-daemon seems to be down, the archive a mirror of an old SVN revision from sf.net). Are there plans to revive this repository or shouldn't it be taken off-line to avoid confusion? ~suv

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UniConvertor update for 0.48 on Windows
by Krzysztof Kosiński 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Hello After some cowboy patching and hacking MinGW includes I managed to update UniConvertor to version 1.1.5 in the Windows devlibs (r18). The attached fix is required for the 0.48 branch in order to work properly with the updated UniConvertor; I have committed it to trunk already. I guess this was the last blocker issue for 0.48, so let's get on with releasing! Regards, Krzysztof

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Fwd: Re : Inskape 0.48pre1 - Error message when saving as wmf
by Igor Novikov 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:14 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > 2010/7/8 Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48...>: > > 1. Removing the Uniconvertor scripts from the devlibs. UniConvertor > import or export scripts warn users to install UniConvertor manually (and > give the site address) when the libs are missing. (Note to self: fix the > gettext import bug in uniconv_output.py...). > > I think that will be perceived as a regression. Lots of formats that > used to work will suddenly stop working. We had a lot of pain with > displaying messages like this - most people simply perceive any such > message as an error and complain or give up without reading. Those who > read it and act on it will be a minority. > >From other side a lot of win32 users ask us "Why you announce XXX feature but i have not this in Inkscape?". We cannot synchronize our project development cycles, it's normally. But we could provide for user a way updating UniConvertor. External UniConvertor installation is a best solution because current bundle updating is a task rather for programmer than for conventional user/designer. > What's such a big problem with including a new UC into devlibs? > Actually there are not impossible tasks. It's just a subject of additional development time and resulted bundle size. Latest version has several new native extensions and more complex structure. And in next versions we will add new native resources because users ask for more and more complex features. As a simple solution we can provide for users an Inkscape-0.48-with-UniConvertor.zip archive with Inkscape installer, UniConvertor MSI and small REAME file inside. To simplify UniConvertor download the best way is not a message "You need downloading from bla-bla-bla site..." but just a button "Download" which opened browser on required page. Last option is for those users who download Inkscape exe installer only. Another valuable reason is planned preferences for translation. We are going provide a lot of translation options (we already have the code but we still not expose it as a command line options) and naturally such preferences could be managed better from GUI than command line. So we will add preferences dialogs for each format into UniConvertor. It's not an easy task so for Inkscape team will be better utilizing ready dialogs from UniConvertor than creating the same but on Inkscape side. And as I have wrote UniConvertor translation progress dialog would be also a good additional feature for Inkscape. Regards, Igor Novikov sK1 Project http://sk1project.org

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Inkscape 0.48 status
by Joshua A. Andler 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Hey All, 0.48 is wrapped up now code-wise... we got that Save As dialog issue on win32 fixed, uniconvertor on win32 is up to date, we also got 3 last minute Connector Tool crash fixes. I've requested that Ted cut the tarball, so once we have that the packagers can begin their work. I will only be available through next Sunday (22nd) to work on the release due to the upcoming surgery, and from the sound of things, probably won't be back anytime soon. I think we have more than enough time to get this done. Jon: Please update your stuff in the release notes. Cheers, Josh

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svg open 2010, again
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

Hi, Is anybody apart from Tav going to SVG Open 2010? :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] more UI mockups :)
by Valerie 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

> > This time UI mockups come from Pablo Lizardo: > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablolizardo/4845828488/in/photostream/ > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablolizardo/4845888941/in/photostream/ > > Apart from it being a clear Photoshop rip-off, it's not very much > different from our current interface. Except that Fill&Stroke is all > dumped into a single pane, losing many options along the way. > > Curiously, Photoshop had acquired a horizontal top panel with tool > options much later than other software, and I think even later than > Inkscape had it. And now we are urged to imitate Photoshop even in > that element. Familiarity so utterly trumps usability that it's not > even funny. Well, it seems you're looking more at the top panels while some of us are more focused on other parts. :) I didn't pay attention to the top panel until you mentioned it. Every mock-up will likely have its good parts and bad parts. Here's what I do like in these mock-ups: 1. The layer panel I like the arrangement, it makes efficient use of space but gives you information about a layer at just a glance. It just needs a slider to pop up besides the numerical value when clicked to adjust opacity more easily. I think the view button could be moved to the far left though to avoid accidentally clicking on the lock button. 2. Parts of the fill and stroke panel Of course, options will have to be restored, but there are elements I do think are interesting: a. The stroke/fill button I suppose when you click on the hollow square, the hollow square is brought to the forefont and you're basically editing your stroke color now, and vice-versa? I think this kind of preview is kind of neat. Of course, the options he removed will have to be brought back in. b. I like the more compact view for caps and markers, though some options are missing now. I wouldn't mind seeing something like this at the bottom: http://j.imagehost.org/view/0548/stroke For those who absolutely Need the names, the name could always pop up when you hover over it. I'm not so sure about the other proposed changes, but I did find these to be nice ideas. Right now I avoid using the fill and stroke panel whenever I can because it's a pain to navigate (too many tabs), something more compact may be nicer.

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SpamBlacklist not working
by unknown＠example.com 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

I tried to revert the last edit to http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MicrosoftVisio and the wiki responded to the Save page with: Warning: file(/var/www/wiki.inkscape.org/htdocs/extensions/SpamBlacklist/wikimedia_b… [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/wiki.inkscape.org/htdocs/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 97 Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /var/www/wiki.inkscape.org/htdocs/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 97 Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in /var/www/wiki.inkscape.org/htdocs/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 102 Warning: array_filter() [function.array-filter]: The first argument should be an array in /var/www/wiki.inkscape.org/htdocs/extensions/SpamBlacklist/SpamBlacklist_body.php on line 102

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more UI mockups :)
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hi, This time UI mockups come from Pablo Lizardo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablolizardo/4845828488/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablolizardo/4845888941/in/photostream/ Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Crashes
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

Hey All, It seems like a decent number of tweets and complaints I've seen around the community (understandably) are about inkscape crashing. Doing basic searches for bugs tagged w/ crash gives the following info: All statuses is over 200 bugs and Confirmed or In Progress have 84. 84 crash bugs that can be reproduced seems unreasonably high for something intended for production work and code-wise there's a chance that some are caused by shared underlying issues. If anyone is interested in taking a look into these to see if there are any you might be able to fix, that would be awesome. http://bit.ly/InkCrash Cheers, Josh

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Release Notes for 0.48: Connectors and Swatches
by Tavmjong Bah 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi, There appears to be nothing in the release notes about the new Connector Tool additions. The Swatches section needs to be expanded with an explanation of how to use them. Why is a linear gradient created when clicking on the Swatches icon in the Fill and Stroke dialog? Tav

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3D Box and 0.49
by Krzysztof Kosiński 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Hello 3D Box is the main thing that prevents us from fixing the coordinate system bug. (The second thing are guides, but they're much easier to fix.) The reason is that it has a design fault - it stores perspectives and faces in desktop coordinates. A simple Y inversion does not fix the problem, because some code (e.g. default face coloring) is dependent on the chirality of the 3D coordinate system, and flipping the Y axis inverts the chirality. There's also a slew of other bugs related to 3D box in our bug tracker. What do we do with it in 0.49? I would really like to see the coordinate system bug fixed in 0.49, even if it means rewriting the 3D box from scratch, or even disabling it. Fancy features aren't very useful if we don't get the basics right. The issue of supporting legacy documents with 3D boxes is separate and I think it can be done if the 3D box gets rewritten first. We would just need to fix the document at load time. Initially I wanted to do this by direct XML manipulation before creating the SP tree, but now I see this has limitations - compatibility code at SP level is probably a better idea. Regards, Krzysztof.

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inkscape aqua new build (-: PPC only )-:
by Drechsel Wolf 08 Aug '10

08 Aug '10

Hi everybody, as I upgraded my system to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", I tried a new build of inkscape for native Mac OS X - called "aqua". Building didnt cause a lot of trouble, daring fellows can get it here: http:// verkehrsplanung.com/Inkscape-r9689-10.5+-PPC.dmg Attn.: It ist PPC only - dont waste your time, if you have an Intel machine. I couldnt do a lot of testing - but it looks as if it works quite nicely, but most of the well-known aqua bugs are maintained. To my feeling, it should not be so much work to get a really useable inkscape aqua - and I assume that many mac people would be happy with it. Sorry - I cannot do any coding - but will be happy to build and test everything. If somebody happens to have some spare time, he could have a look at: http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/ ige-mac-integration/GtkOSXApplication could be one topic to begin with. Else: Here is my bug-list - most of them are aqua-related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~drechsel I'll continue praying every bedtime for a mac developer to care for inkscape aqua … (-; Greetings, Wolf Yours, Wolf

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