Inkscape is a staff pick at Apple downloads
Hello everyone,
Looking for something else I just passed cross this on Apple's site: Inkscape is marked as staff pick by Apple currently. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_sp.html I don't remember that it was before so that's great news, given that the interface is X11 (which Mac users typically don't like), and not very pretty by default (which mac users usually care much about). However it seems to be a little lower in the most downloaded counts: it was in top 10 and is now 17. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_top.html But no doubt that the 0.46 release will bring all that up. Congratulations anyway.
I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape.
Cheers,
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
jiho wrote the following on 8/29/2007 9:37 AM:
Hello everyone,
Looking for something else I just passed cross this on Apple's site: Inkscape is marked as staff pick by Apple currently. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_sp.html I don't remember that it was before so that's great news, given that the interface is X11 (which Mac users typically don't like), and not very pretty by default (which mac users usually care much about). However it seems to be a little lower in the most downloaded counts: it was in top 10 and is now 17. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_top.html But no doubt that the 0.46 release will bring all that up. Congratulations anyway.
I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape.
Cheers,
JiHO
i saw this on their web site:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/inkscape.html
"Note: On start-up, it will take a couple of minutes before the main window appears (while the application builds the font cache.)"
...a couple of minutes? are you serious? i don't use a mac but is this what some of you go through?
heathenx
On 2007-August-29 , at 16:24 , heathenx wrote:
jiho wrote the following on 8/29/2007 9:37 AM:
Hello everyone,
Looking for something else I just passed cross this on Apple's site: Inkscape is marked as staff pick by Apple currently. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/index_sp.html I don't remember that it was before so that's great news, given that the interface is X11 (which Mac users typically don't like), and not very pretty by default (which mac users usually care much about). However it seems to be a little lower in the most downloaded counts: it was in top 10 and is now 17. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ index_top.html But no doubt that the 0.46 release will bring all that up. Congratulations anyway.
I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape.
i saw this on their web site:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/inkscape.html
"Note: On start-up, it will take a couple of minutes before the main window appears (while the application builds the font cache.)"
...a couple of minutes? are you serious? i don't use a mac but is this what some of you go through?
Oupsss. I did not saw this. The sentence is not correct, it should read:
On FIRST startup, it will....
So yes we go through this but only once (well once for each release of Inkscape in fact, so each 6 months or so). Don't be afraid for us, that's bearable! ;) I have absolutely no idea about who to contact at Apple to have this (and the ugly screenshot) fixed though.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On 30/08/2007, at 12:35 AM, jiho wrote:
On 2007-August-29 , at 16:24 , heathenx wrote:
i saw this on their web site:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/inkscape.html
"Note: On start-up, it will take a couple of minutes before the main window appears (while the application builds the font cache.)"
...a couple of minutes? are you serious? i don't use a mac but is this what some of you go through?
Oupsss. I did not saw this. The sentence is not correct, it should read:
On FIRST startup, it will....
So yes we go through this but only once (well once for each release of Inkscape in fact, so each 6 months or so). Don't be afraid for us, that's bearable! ;) I have absolutely no idea about who to contact at Apple to have this (and the ugly screenshot) fixed though.
There doesn't seem to be a way to request alterations... I think that now we are aware of this, we just make sure that we are the first to submit 0.45 to the site. That way we can craft the text a little more carefully and choose a better screenshot.
Cheers, Michael
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:37:59 +0200, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape.
I'm really hoping someone is able to get the native OS X port together soon. While it's true that it can't offer tablet support yet, it's not as if Apple's X11 server does either. And Inkscape going native Gtk might provide an incentive for someone to implement tablet support on native Gtk.
-mental
On 8/29/07, MenTaLguY <mental@...32...> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:37:59 +0200, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape.
I'm really hoping someone is able to get the native OS X port together soon. While it's true that it can't offer tablet support yet, it's not as if Apple's X11 server does either. And Inkscape going native Gtk might provide an incentive for someone to implement tablet support on native Gtk.
The page http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx indicates that OS X 10.4 or newer is required, so leaving X11 would seem to imply leaving OS X 10.3.9 behind as well.
, John
On 2007-August-30 , at 01:09 , John Faith wrote:
On 8/29/07, MenTaLguY <mental@...32...> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:37:59 +0200, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
I've some GTK themes which look OK when integrated with OS X. Now if someone could tell me how to use GTK2_RC_FILES I'll be glad to try and use them in Inkscape.
I'm really hoping someone is able to get the native OS X port together soon. While it's true that it can't offer tablet support yet, it's not as if Apple's X11 server does either. And Inkscape going native Gtk might provide an incentive for someone to implement tablet support on native Gtk.
The page http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx indicates that OS X 10.4 or newer is required, so leaving X11 would seem to imply leaving OS X 10.3.9 behind as well.
We already have two separate versions of Inkscape for Panther and Tiger so I guess it won't be a problem to have a Panther-X11 and a Tiger-Leopard-native. hopefully we won't need to have a Panther-X11 and Tiger-X11 a Tiger-native-experimental, a Leopard-X11, a.... ;-)
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
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