On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 17:13 +0200, Patrick Storz wrote:
Unfortunately they don't seem to be active anymore. If anybody has some development experience on Mac and wants to start from there / rebase the changes I'm sure we can work towards incorporating them into the codebase.
I'm not a Mac developer, but I did look into bringing in the changes in their codebase into our own.
I did get a small patch in.
The problems are thrice:
1. Most of the modifications are forks of Gtk and some other libraries which are bundled into the distribution. For example to get the menu in the top bar has a patch against Gtk2.
2. The modifications are related to Gtk2, a new rebase would and /should/ start from scratch. Simple because Gtk3 is going to be very different. So both the Gtk fork and the mods to Inkscape need to be re- done. Although I recommend using the ideas from this branch.
3. Modifications were specific to the mac build. There's some modifications that we could take so long as we had good ifdefs for a Mac build. Things like folder locations and some other bits and bobs.
Overall I'm very impressed by the curated build, but I also understand exactly why this wasn't merged in. I'd probably support a new fork of Inkscape to replicate this work if it means getting a MacOSX release as high quality as this one for 1.0.
Best Regards, Martin Owens