OS X dev builds again
Hi all,
Thank you very much for 0.44 which is brilliant. Now that I am back from no-internet-land I restarted the process of producing dev builds of Inkscape for OS X. A new build is there: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape_20060629.dmg
I changed the background image color to match the green color of the new website (which is great too... even if I think that blue fitted better to Inkscape that green ;-) ) and thought about how to represent the installation procedure in an international manner (see thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15481499 ). In the end I stayed with my initial approach (i.e. a link to / Applications on which Inkscape Icon can be dragged) because: - the only text present is "internationalized" by the system itself - I read somewhere that even if OS X app bundles can be executed from anywhere on the disk, they are registered and really integrated into the system only if they are in /Applications (there is a startup job which looks into /Applications and registers new ones). Therefore, / Applications is really the place where to put them - it eases very much the installation procedure (= 1 drag and drop) The next problem of the user is to find out where is Inkscape once he dragged it onto the "Applications" link which I don't think is much of a problem because: - there is a link to /Applications with the same icon that in the .dmg on the left of every Finder window by default - it is a common procedure to put applications in /Applications :-) - starting from OS X Tiger a spotlight search will show Inkscape and, actually, all people I have seen using Tiger never navigate to Applications again but use Spotlight as a launcher - this is something that is likely to be even "more true" in the long run with spotlight taking more and more importance in the way the Finder operates (in 10.5 Leopard, the navigation in the Finder is going to be largely based on spotlight searches) I hope this is OK with everybody.
As the .info.txt file mentions, this build is without Inkboard support because loudmouth is still not in Fink. Michael can you upload your Fink package somewhere so that I (and maybe other OS X compilers) can use it? Do you think it can go in the wiki page?
Thank you in advance.
JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, jiho wrote:
Thank you very much for 0.44 which is brilliant. Now that I am back from no-internet-land I restarted the process of producing dev builds of Inkscape for OS X. A new build is there: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape_20060629.dmg
I changed the background image color to match the green color of the new website (which is great too... even if I think that blue fitted better to Inkscape that green ;-) ) and thought about how to represent the installation procedure in an international manner (see thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15481499 ). In the end I stayed with my initial approach (i.e. a link to / Applications on which Inkscape Icon can be dragged) because:
Can you add this updated image to the wiki page? I will add it to the process for the next official release we do. (I looked to a nicer way of working with it than the massive disk image approach you wrote about, but couldn't find anything, so I think we'll just do that.)
As the .info.txt file mentions, this build is without Inkboard support because loudmouth is still not in Fink. Michael can you upload your Fink package somewhere so that I (and maybe other OS X compilers) can use it? Do you think it can go in the wiki page?
Yes, the package is still waiting in the fink tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1327338&group_id=172... I have not pestered them anymore about getting it added since it looks like we'll be switching to pedro rather than loudmouth for the first official version with Inkboard support. Anyway, you can download the info file from the bottom of that page and add it your /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ directory and do a "fink index && fink install loudmouth" to install.
Cheers, Michael
On 01 Jul 2006, at 02:39 , Michael Wybrow wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, jiho wrote:
Thank you very much for 0.44 which is brilliant. Now that I am back from no-internet-land I restarted the process of producing dev builds of Inkscape for OS X. A new build is there: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape_20060629.dmg
I changed the background image color to match the green color of the new website (which is great too... even if I think that blue fitted better to Inkscape that green ;-) ) and thought about how to represent the installation procedure in an international manner (see thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php? msg_id=15481499 ). In the end I stayed with my initial approach (i.e. a link to / Applications on which Inkscape Icon can be dragged) because:
Can you add this updated image to the wiki page? I will add it to the process for the next official release we do. (I looked to a nicer way of working with it than the massive disk image approach you wrote about, but couldn't find anything, so I think we'll just do that.)
I updated the background image and the screenshot. Concerning the large disk image, the problem itself is not the size of the image (it can be recreated each time, it's not very long). The problem is that I did not find any way of changing the aspect of the finder window via a script. If this is doable, everything could be automated and then it's just a matter of adding lines to osxapp.sh or new scripts, and the background image in svn.
As the .info.txt file mentions, this build is without Inkboard support because loudmouth is still not in Fink. Michael can you upload your Fink package somewhere so that I (and maybe other OS X compilers) can use it? Do you think it can go in the wiki page?
Yes, the package is still waiting in the fink tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&aid=1327338&group_id=17203&atid=414256 I have not pestered them anymore about getting it added since it looks like we'll be switching to pedro rather than loudmouth for the first official version with Inkboard support. Anyway, you can download the info file from the bottom of that page and add it your /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/ directory and do a "fink index && fink install loudmouth" to install.
thanks I hope next dev build will be with Inkboard.
JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On 02 Jul 2006, at 13:22 , jiho wrote:
On 01 Jul 2006, at 02:39 , Michael Wybrow wrote:
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Can you add this updated image to the wiki page? I will add it to the process for the next official release we do. (I looked to a nicer way of working with it than the massive disk image approach you wrote about, but couldn't find anything, so I think we'll just do that.)
I updated the background image and the screenshot. Concerning the large disk image, the problem itself is not the size of the image (it can be recreated each time, it's not very long). The problem is that I did not find any way of changing the aspect of the finder window via a script. If this is doable, everything could be automated and then it's just a matter of adding lines to osxapp.sh or new scripts, and the background image in svn.
I finally found a way to automatize all this with Applescript (which is quite a cool language in fact!). I posted a patch in the tracker, assigned to Michael which looked like the more appropriate person: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1516212&group_id=93438&atid=604308
It's the first time I post such a thing so tell me if something is wrong.
JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, jiho wrote:
On 01 Jul 2006, at 02:39 , Michael Wybrow wrote:
Can you add this updated image to the wiki page? I will add it to the process for the next official release we do. (I looked to a nicer way of working with it than the massive disk image approach you wrote about, but couldn't find anything, so I think we'll just do that.)
I finally found a way to automatize all this with Applescript (which is quite a cool language in fact!). I posted a patch in the tracker, assigned to Michael which looked like the more appropriate person: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detail&aid=1516212&group_id=93438&atid=604308
It's the first time I post such a thing so tell me if something is wrong.
Thanks! I will look at it in the next couple of days and see how I go.
Cheers, Michael
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