Inkscape-osxmenu r12922 GTK3 (demo) - README

Inkscape-osxmenu-r12922-1-gtk3-quartz-10.7-x86_64.dmg

Experimental GTK3 build with OS X integration features (Gtk+/Quartz, global menubar, keyboard shortcuts, proxy icon), requires OS X 10.7.5 or later.

*** WARNING ***
This GTK3 build is NOT ready for use - it is mostly provided for the curious, and those willing to help with known issues. Inkscape has not migrated to GTK3 yet, and such builds (on Linux or any other platform) have to be considered as highly experimental (in addition to being based on unstable trunk) and should not be installed with the expectation of a fully functional application.

Get the GTK2 build if you are interested in a somewhat useable build of Inkscape-osxmenu.

*** NOTE ***
This GTK3/Quartz-based Inkscape build uses the custom library 'gtk-mac-integration' for the global menubar feature. Based on comments like the following about the scope of this external library:

«I will not add API to gtk-mac-integration. While it works with Gtk3, Gtk3 also offers more direct integration with the Mac menus which doesn't require gtk-mac-integration. That's the direction that project developers should be taking: Upgrading to Gtk3 with GMenuModel & GMenu from GIO.»
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708513#c4

it seems to me that using gtk-mac-integration with inkscape is kind of a "dead end" with regard to future development goals (migration to GTK3), and further developer efforts should be put into the GTK3 port of inkscape directly (AFAIU recent changes and deprecations in Glib and GTK3 are likely to require major refactoring of Inkscape's code anyway).

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MD5
9e887bf4a26fb03dd092df88921ad797

SHA256
7039f27d68def2aa759aa69ac1190d24f6d328798c6933a6757f00ac63396220

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Source:
https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu

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README.txt:

OSX packages of Inkscape 0.91+devel+osxmenu, based on this branch:
<https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu>
Requires OS X 10.7.5 or later.

Use at your own risk ;)


Known issues (r12922):
- Canvas: redraw issues (GTK2), flickering (GTK3)
  Screen recordings: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/6314/
- Menubar: radio menu items in sub-menus are not updated on change
  (View -> Display mode, View -> Color Display mode)
- Menubar: check menu items don't sync with keyboard shortcuts (same verb)
  (also affects Unity's global menubar, see bug #1136344)
- Disabled dialogs:
  SVG Font Editor (crashes, see bug #1116468)
- Usability: 'File > Open Recent' on the global menubar has no tooltips
  (missing info about full path name of hovered item)

... and very likely countless more.


Mostly "fixed" (but it's a mess): clipboard handling on quit
- bundled Python-based script extensions no longer prompt with stderr via
  GUI when processing clipboard content on application quit.
- no tracebacks from failed UniConvertor attempts to convert clipboard
  content. 
- export to GIMP XCF, JessyInk ZIP, Synfig SIF disabled for clipboard content

New in r12798:
- Proxy icons in window title bar for easy access to file via Finder
  (contributed by Liam P. White; based on OS X port of Gedit 3.x)

New in r12804:
- About Inkscape, Preferences, Input Devices moved to application menu
  (contributed by Liam P. White)

New in r12839:
- experimental was merged into trunk:
  ° Internal resolution changed from 90dpi to 96dpi
  ° Templates: cleaned-up defaults, new procedural templates
  ° New drawing modes (pen, pencil): spirolive, bspline
  ° New LPEs: fillet/chamfer, roughen, simplify, show_handles,
              lattice2, perspective/envelope
  ° New (from ponyscape): Objects dialog, Selection sets
  ° New LPEs (from ponyscape): Attach path, Bounding Box, Ellipse by 5 pts,
              Fill between many, Fill between strokes, Join type,
              Taper stroke
              
New in r12900:
- support for experimental GTK3 app bundle added

New in r12902:
- new packages won't include custom theming options by default

New in r12908:
- update for mesh gradient definitions. For details please read
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/45586
  Note: this code change breaks existing Inkscape SVG files with mesh
  gradients. The perl script attached to the message will update files to
  the new spec.


Note: Latest packages
- include patched cairo 1.14.2 to work around a regression with canvas text
  introduced in the Quartz backend of cairo 1.14.2. For details see
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84324#c13
- include freetype build with old freetype CFF engine driver enabled
  (workaround for bug #1396582)



Debugging options (launch the app in the Terminal with the commands below):
- launcher script:
INK_DEBUG_LAUNCHER=true /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape
- inkscape via gdb
INK_DEBUG=gdb /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape
- inkscape via lldb (Mavericks)
INK_DEBUG=lldb /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape
- Use external loader/module cache files
USE_EXTERNAL_LOADER_CACHES=true /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape




For questions or problems (related to packaging):
<suv-sf at users.sf.net>