On 05/05/06, Timothée Anglade <timothee.anglade@...1261...> wrote:
I'm pondering the idea of doing this kind of work on GTK+OSX with the MacLibre/WinLibre project ...
Do you have the relevant link to the MacLibre project concerned.
Although, I must say this kind of work may be way over my head. I feel perfectly capable of doing UI design [ snip good stuff] ..
I point I neglected to discuss last night was to stress that the ultimate success of the Inkscape project, and no doubt an area of interest to most people here is the quality of the User Interface. In my opinion, no effort should be spared in creating an appropriate and high quality HCI. It has yet to be shown that an OSS project can produce a best of breed UI (I think that it is possible, and that to date, no project has put together all the ingredients needed for success), which is why one suggestion of mine was to achieve a purity of design, and perhaps work alone for a period of time. This is not necessarily the best way to go, but it might enable you to achieve something that you can feel proud of, I think that the French word is fière : joy and elegance; which would count as 'best foot forward' in terms of bringing along the Inkscape project.
On 5/5/06, Derek Hinchliffe <derek@...1264...> wrote:
On 5/4/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
Oops. Major typo there. That should read "there is *now* active work" not "there is not active
work"
On May 3, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
But the good news, as others pointed out, is that there is not active
work
getting GTK++ itself to be OS X native. This has been ongoing, and
thus is a
large reason for Inkscape developers not to reinvent the wheel when
waiting
a little can get it all done for free.
I'd just like to give my support for this idea. I regularly use both OS X and Windows, so I'd very much like to see a native Inkscape for OS X. But I think development efforts would be best directed into projects to port GTK rather than any specific program using GTK.
The currently active project for GTK2 is http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X
Otherwise, you could end up with the situation of several different developers all working on porting a particular OSS GTK+ app to native OS X when they could be channeling their efforts together into the GTK+ project.
I remember when I first started working with GTK apps on Windows (namely GIMP), it was kludgy and awkward - there was no real interaction with the rest of the OS and it really behaved no different to running a rootless X server. Now, GTK+ on windows has come a long way and apps like the GIMP and Inkscape feel far more native now. I've no doubt that over time this will happen with OS X GTK+ and Mac users will then have access to a wealth of OSS apps that run effectively natively, rather than just the ones that have had enough developers to be able to port successfully.