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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Jon Phillips wrote:
Oh, also, can you make it available from a URL please so myself and others can test it out.
Ok, so I got a chance to test the DMG package on a Tiger (10.4.1) machine last night and it seemed to work fine. It did take maybe 40 seconds to start the very first time I loaded it. But maybe this was some kind of Spotlight indexing since it started up in maybe 2--4 seconds on every successive try, even removing the app bundle and reloading it from other locations. Not sure how to figure out what is causing this when it only happened the first time. Maybe this isn't a problem if we put a message in the accompanying documentation or get the launcher to pop up a dialog with a message about it before starting Inkscape the first time.
I've put the 22MB DMG up here for people to try out: http://desert.csse.monash.edu.au/~mwybrow/Inkscape.dmg
As stated before, this was built from CVS on Friday, but I didn't change any versioning information so it looks like 0.41. If you're on Tiger, give it a chance to start up the first time before you close it thinking something is wrong.
(The DMG is not built --with-perl or --with-python. Also, it does not use the OS-X-esque gtk theme 'Glossy P' that Gimp.app uses since it makes some of the widgets odd sizes and doesn't work well with things like the boolean (i.e. on/off) toolbar options such as the stoke-width-scaling option. I kind of get the feeling that the theme makes Inkscape look pretty and fit in better with other OS X apps at first glance but would make it harder to work with effectively. Someone could perhaps make a modified version of the theme for Inkscape at some point if enough people ask for it.)
Cheers, Michael