Comments on: Inkscape native, take 2

By: James

James — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:22:51 +0000

I am also for take 3.

By: Vitezslav Valka

Vitezslav Valka — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:02:11 +0000

Hello there :) I am also for “Take 3″ :-)

By: MySchizoBuddy

MySchizoBuddy — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:21:51 +0000

It has been over an year since this article was written. Lot of packages have been updated.

First of all Macports 1.7 was released

Cairo is on 1.8.6
Gtk2 is on 2.14.7
Gtkmm 2.14.3
Pango 1.22.4

Can you do a take 3 of this article.
thanks

By: JiHO

JiHO — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:49:17 +0000

Indeed I use the xmodmap trick you mention. The final goal, however, would be to get that out of the box in Inkscape, so that people don’t have to mess with the xmodmap.

As for the packaging, the problem is not to produce a dmg vs. a zip, it is really that the binary compiled this way depends on libraries that are in /opt/local on my system (the MacPorts path). Assuming that I can make a zip of that, when you would unzip it on your machine, it would overwrite all data you may have in these locations and you’ll be mad at me, wouldn’t you ;)

So the only way right now is really to compile it on your system. It has been a long time since I last tried and things may have improved significantly. I hope you have good results.

By: Koda

Koda — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:38:00 +0000

it’s very nice, i’m trying it right now!
even if it’s not really packaged you could have just zipped it to easy download

anyway if you dislike the X11 shorcut you can place an .xmodmap in the home dir containg

keycode 63 = Control_L
keycode 60 = Alt_L
keycode 66 = Alt_L
clear mod1
clear Control
add mod1 = Alt_L
add Control = Control_L

to have the same shortcuts as mac

By: Jon Whipple

Jon Whipple — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:52:54 +0000

Hey, That look very promising. I think once you get Command assigned and the keyboard shortcuts in place, this will be a lot more acceptable to Mac users who don’t want to deal with X11 conventions. Great work. And good points on my blog btw.

Thanks!

Jon

By: JiHO

JiHO — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:48:38 +0000

I haven’t tried it yet but the latest build of Inkscape was made Universal by compiling it against universal versions of the libraries in MacPorts. So, from there, going from universal to universal + native should not be too much of a problem.
The real issue is distribution since, at the moment, the native build is not packaged in an app bundle.

By: Gruni

Gruni — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:46:37 +0000

Are you able to compile you’re success into a Universal Binary? That would be great to see (and use.)

Greetings, Gruni

By: JiHO

JiHO — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:28:06 +0000

Try the new builds on sourceforge or modevia, they are probably better. At least I work with those daily and don't find them to be "painful". They're Leopard only for now though. Oh! and chhh, 0.46 is not officially out yet, so don't tell anyone.

By: Phil Crosby

Phil Crosby — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:01:09 +0000

Dude, awesome. Great video, especially the musical accompaniment =) Thanks for all your work on this port. I’ve been building simple web graphics in keynote for awhile now, because inkscape in OSX is too painful. The cure seems to be in sight.