[Skencil-users] Join forces for skencil1/sK1? (was: sK1)

[Igor Novikov]

Hi Bernhard,

Try the gnustep-lve CD 1.0 or so.


 I'll compile GNUstep from sources. It seems this is a simplest way to
install Cenon
on MDK 2007.

This is really hard to say as there is a small Germany company behind it,
> they might have more under the hood, which we cannot say.


Cenon mail list archive in 2005-2006 is almost epmty. It is a bad character.

Given that font handling can also be brought under control,
> maybe reasons to continue with a GTK port at all are getting less
> important.


Gtk or Qt don't provide low level access to fonts which is needed for vector
editor.
We think FreeType binding should  be used  any way like in Scribus or
Inkscape.

I am also copying Bernhard (H.) as he probably will be interested in the
> discussion as well and he knows most of the reasons why he wanted to move
> to GTK (and GNOME originally if I remember).


We thought that moving to Gtk was due to be closer to enterprise Linux
solutions. May be
this our opinion is wrong...

 I tried installing Skencil 0.7 trunk from repository, but build is failed
because
packageconfig (.pc files) on MDK 2007 is not the same as expected by install
script.
Of course, I can manually reconfigure these files, but regular users will
not be able to
make such hacks.

System Gtk/Gnome binding links Skencil development to Gtk/Gnome life cycle.
It's also not a good feature.

If at all, installation process should be simplified like Inkscape
autopackages (which also
have some problems: latest v0.44 autopackage can not be installed on MDK2005
due to Gtk
incompatibility). Installation problem is very important, because regular
users should be able
quickly and simply upgrade vector editor, like CorelDRAW or Adobe
Illustrator under Win32.

Sincerely,

Igor Novikov
sK1 Team
http://sk1.sf.net
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