On 26/04/11 14:27, Martin Owens wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 14:18 +0200, ~suv wrote:
Note also that no builds have been done and tested on Windows so far (not with GFileMonitor nor the current solution using a Refresh button).
Sorry if this seems to overrate the importance of supporting other (commercial) platforms, but on irc I voted to implement a solution more likely to work in a cross-platform manner first (with a Refresh button), instead of an auto-refresh (directory monitoring) which crashes Inkscape on other platforms. 'Auto-Refresh' could be added anytime once the branch has been merged into trunk, but the basic features of the new Gallery dialog do not depend on it.
At least hide the button for users with proper operating systems. Forcing everyone to mediocrity can't be the best way.
Inkscape: designed by the lowest common denominator.
The way I see it Martin, is if I put in something that just works for Linux (maybe Windows), then something that works globally will (probably) never get implemented, whereas this way there is an incentive for someone to do this.
I myself only use Inkscape on Linux, so I am not doing this as I want to work on 'my platform' or nowhere - I am doing it as I see it the fairest thing to do for everyone.
Besides it is not that much effort to click a button is it ;)