8:32 p.m.
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
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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.
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9:39 a.m.
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=...
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
8:22 p.m.
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/
6:45 p.m.
On 02 Jul 2006, at 13:22 , jiho wrote:
On 01 Jul 2006, at 02:39 , Michael Wybrow wrote:
>
[snip]
> 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/
2:06 p.m.
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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