Jon A. Cruz wrote: [cut]
Anyway...
If you or anyone you know has time to hunt down the crash causes, then that would be helpful. We (or at least many of us including myself) would like Inkscape to be happy on as many platforms as possible. At the moment, though, my Win32 testing is all on a QEMU image being emulated on a Mac, so it's a bit slow for me to do anything. The good news is that I've at least talked to some of the GTK+ developers in person about this, and they'll be happy for any good solution to the problem.
I would like to take this on, but I have no access to anything less than NT. My friend's machine goes back in a few hours and I don't really want to see it ever again!
If it's any help at all, I tried to install the GIMP first and the first part of that was to install GTK+ 2.8.9. This failed cleanly by reporting that ME was not supported. I then tried Inkscape and it went all the way through installation with no error messages, but clearly it hadn't installed cleanly.
Unfortunately I didn't log the assertion errors that were reported, but more to the point, I wonder why the GTK+ component in the Inkscape package didn't check its OS environment before trying to complete installation? That should be easy to track down I would think.
Oh, before I forget, the graphics environment is very primitive with only VGA and 4 bit colour. I would guess that that is very relevant, but again it's the apparent absence of defensive coding that concerns me.
When I return the machine I will locate the necessary driver to obtain better graphics resolution and try to install Inkscape again, at least to obtain some diagnostics.
Regards
Peter HB