I am using Mac OS 10.4.3 with Apple's X11 On an iMac G5 2GHz. I have this problem with all of the pre-release .dmg files (pre0 through pre3), though unfortunately I have been busy and unable to spend much time looking into it.
So I can see console errors, I run Inkscape from the command-line[1] and get one error right away:
$ /Applications/Inkscape0.43pre3-2.app/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape
(inkscape-bin:822): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Clicking the 'Open' icon or going 'File' -> 'Open...' gives me this:
(inkscape-bin:822): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases
Finally, actually trying to open any svg file gives me this:
(inkscape-bin:822): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: gnome_vfs_uri_is_local: assertion `uri != NULL' failed
** (inkscape-bin:822): WARNING **: Invalid URI
** (inkscape-bin:822): WARNING **: Error: Could not open file '/path/to/file.svg' with VFS
And an error window in X11 appears as well:
"Failed to load the requested file /path/to/file.svg"
Anyone have any ideas of what's going on? I think it's a problem on my end, because other 10.4.3 users seem to have it working fine. Unfortunately I'm still pretty unfamiliar with OS X (and X11 has always baffled me) so I don't really know where to start looking for problems.
(Note: importing bitmaps works fine, though importing svgs gives me the same problem)
Any help is much appreciated.
AJ Ashton
[1] I'm fairly new to Mac OS so I don't even know if this is the correct method for running an app from the console. It runs the same when I double click the .app, so I assume it is.