Martin,
Hello,
Firstly; I love the design, very nice.
Thanks Chris and Ian did a ton of work on that.
I wanted to make a comment about the text shown in the mockup there.
Please do, all comments are welcome.
This part:
"which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux"
Quite besides putting your fellow FOSS project last in a list of supported operating systems, especially since many distros package and release Inkscape ready to install and windows and macosx don't.
I see your point I will change that to mention GNU/Linux Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu. First see what people say. I am working on some images and openid login. To use to make it work across the site.
But worse is the confusion of "Linux". Does this sentence mean that Inkscape will work on Android? Will it work on my TiVo or my Home brew Wii? It is nonsense to claim to run on Linux when linux is a kernel which can't run Inkscape in most cases.
Hmm Android that would be nice! Maybe iPod, iPad how nice would that be? XCode and sdk sparks will be fling.
TiVo, HomeBrew, not sure we would really go in that direction.
It would be more clear and honest to say "which runs on Gnome/Linux" or "FreeDesktop Linux" or just "Fedora, Debian and other awesome Free Desktops".
Yes very good suggestions will work on that.
And if you're of the opinion that Android and such aren't marketed as Linux and there for won't be confusing. Think about the way Ubuntu isn't marketed as Linux either (because it isn't true and because it's not helpful to scare away new users), will we have "which runs on Linux and Ubuntu" to account for that?
Yes Android is usually listed as "Android" but it is Linux core on Java C++ framework.
The lack of consideration that Linux distros are given by the Inkscape
This will be remedied sorry about the confusion.
website is currently frustrating. The install for Windows and Mac is
The install for Mac and windows is easy in most situations.
easy, but we don't have a single deb, apt link, or ppa and instead ask
We will make sure the nightly builds are listed from the nightly PPA.
also most distro add the new version pretty fast. Ubuntu in conjunction with Launchpad is the fastest in the GNU/Linux distros. We have new versions on SourceForge for Macs and Windows as they come available.
users to compile. Please consider rectifying and please start with the text on the front page.
Will do thank you for the comments. Please give more when you see something that need fixing.
Best regards, Martin Owens
Regards, Leo Jackson