[CREATE] Hello from Audacity

[Jon A. Cruz]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:25 AM, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:

> Anyway, I'm not dismissing the possibility of common ground.  I'm  
> just concerned that many existing projects fail to take into  
> account the look and feel of Windows and Mac applications and how  
> to design programs that conform to those.

Well, at least for Inkscape I can say that this is kept in mind.  
Personally I am currently doing all my Inkscape development on a Mac.  
And I also happen to use it to work on Win32 issues (using cross- 
compile gcc and Qemu).

The OS X work on GTK+ is *very* interesting, especially with the  
aggressive timeframe that it seems to be targeting. Also... Inkscape  
is looking at some internal UI re-work that might make it easier to  
get Mac-style menus sooner than base GTK+ (there are some tricky  
issues for stock GTK+ and OS X menus).

The general consensus for Inkscape developers seems to be keeping a  
very strong focus on a usable application that works anywhere. Trying  
to keep Windows and OS X as first class citizens is a strong  
consideration, with the main failing being that while more of our  
users are on Windows, very few of our developers are. So if things  
aren't quite as solid, its usually due to limited developer  
resources, not lack of concern or priority.