Hey there,<br>
<br>
As a (future) candidate for the Google Summer of Code, and a fan and
user of Inkscape, I strolled through the ideas page on the website, but
I didn't find any mention of a native GUI for OSX.<br>
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As far as I can tell, it's not even on the roadmap, which leads me to
think that the developing community might not see that a critical or
even important.<br>
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I, for one, would really like to see that happen. First as a user,
because launching X11 on a low-end Mac is just extremely painful and
the interface is not always rendered correctly (which kind of negates
the possibility of really using Inkscape on OSX sometimes).<br>
Secondly, I do think that it could be useful in that there is currently
no other free (as in beer) vector editor of quality on OSX, which stays
the platform of choice for many 'creatives'.<br>
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Finally, as far as I can tell, it looks highly feasible on a technical
and temporal standpoint. My only fear (and my main question here), is
that I may face an OOo-type situation where the GUI and the engine are
so bonded together that using another GUI involves going deep into the
general code. It does not seem that this is the case as Inkscape is
built on libraries and previous projects, but you never know.<br>
<br>
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So, I was wondering if that type of project seemed 1) interesting to
you (ie : may be a good subject for a SoC participation) and 2) seemed
feasible to you as everyday/everyweek/everymonth contributers to the
code.<br>
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Many thanks in advance for your input !<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Tim Anglade<br>