I was running Inkscape on my brother's G5 Leopard the other day with the XQuartz 2.1.1 update, and it ran really nicely. It was a bit sluggish at first, and I was quite disappointed, but it ran much better after a reboot. I know Mac and Linux people don't reboot real often, but I'm on Windows where it's par for the course. Anyway, it helped IMHO.
You can also try the pre-release version of XQuartz 2.1.2. Things are moving fast - they're up to release candidate 6 at present, but it was at RC4 just yesterday. The new modular design of Xorg supposedly helps development to be faster, or so I've read. The roadmap also shows several new versions expected in the near future. They also are after bug reports. For now, see http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.2 here for info on 2.1.2 and http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/ here for the downloads.
I am keeping things up to date in the Inkscape wiki under http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InstallHelp InstallHelp
Cheers,
Rygle.
jiho wrote:
I noticed that the X11 version that shipped with leopard was really bad. it is based on XOrg and is therefore theoretically better than the old XFree version but still very far from being good. I would advise to install a new build from XQuartz (an open-source development team working somehow in collaboration with Apple). It may be a bit less stable but is overall much more pleasant: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz