On 2007-December-02 , at 01:30 , Maximilian Albert wrote:
Hi JiHO!
Thanks for getting back so quickly and detailedly. Again, just out of curiosity - combining your comments ...
And well there's always the long term goal of X11 independance... which is not so far away now.
.. and ..
That's true indeed. When windows are minimized they go to the "Dock", which also holds running application icons. For regular mac-applications clicking on the icons maximizes the last closed window. Inkscape's application however is just a wrapper around a shell script. Once it is started, control passes to X11 so one should click the X11 icon to maximize Inkscape.
... does that mean that once X11 independence is achieved, things like maximizing by clicking the Dock icon or drag & drop will work? Or will it not be possible to abandon the shell script wrapper?
Inkscape already ran without X11 for several of us (see a screencast here http://jo.irisson.free.fr/?p=34). However there are still issues with GTK that prevent it to be usable. Currently Inkscape won't even run (there's a bug report about it but I cannot really got further myself http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel). Even when GTK will be stable enough without X11, we'll have to still use the shell script launcher for a while I guess. Turning it into a standalone application will require more knowledge about Cocoa (OS X framework) than I have. I hope someone will turn out to help in this respect (or than we'll just be able to grab what the Gimp guys will do ;)).
We'll see, currently, the main show stopper is GTK, which is improving but still not perfect so any Mac guy wanting Inkscape to run natively should: - support the GTK port - compile it and report bugs. I'll post a method about how to have both native and regular GTK builds side by side shortly on the wiki.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/