Bryce Harrington wrote:
Well, if the issue is simply that gtk 2.8 uses cairo, which has functions that do not work on win98, then perhaps a potential solution would be for win98 users to create their own inkscape package that uses older gtk libraries, that *do* work on win98?
Is GTK+ still included in the Inkscape installer? Then it might be a good idea to make it an individual package, and let users choose what they want.
Presently, Inkscape itself requires only gtk 2.4. I believe that the windows version of Inkscape moved to later versions of gtk in order to gain bug fixes for issues encountered on windows, so it is is possible that by reverting to an earlier gtk, windows inkscape users would have to endure those bugs, but perhaps that would be better than not having inkscape at all?
It would surely be easier to test this then. GTK+ 2.6 should work, too, at least there weren't any users so far who reported that this kills GIMP on Win98.
HTH, Michael