[CREATE] Hello from Audacity

[Dominic Mazzoni]

On Mar 15, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> 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).

That's great news.  I will have to keep a close eye on GTK+ for OS  
X.  That will really solve a lot of issues.

> 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.

Yeah, we have the same problem!  Too many Windows users, not enough  
Windows developers.  We used to have the same problem with OS X, but  
actually it has grown in popularity substantially among developers.

- Dominic