On May 5, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Alan Horkan wrote:

I'm not an expert on the Mac Human Interface Guidelines but I'd like to

think they are a stricter superset of the Gnome Human Interface guidelines

and that if enough people wanted to Inkscape should be able to meet those

high standards on all platforms not just Mac OS.

Remember, though, there is a large driving factor with the Mac OS UI guidelines:

What will make a pretty presentation for Steve Jobs' keynote?

That's only half in jest. Too much emphasis has been given at times to the wrong driving factors (their single-app-on-screen paradigm was one very obvious example). Just keep that in mind and take their things with a grain of salt. Remember, we'll want the good functional stuff, not the "pretty up on stage" or "keep brand identity" stuff.