Hi Bernhard,<br>
<br>
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Try the gnustep-lve CD 1.0 or so.</blockquote><div><br>
I'll compile GNUstep from sources. It seems this is a simplest way to install Cenon <br>
on MDK 2007.<br>
<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is really hard to say as there is a small Germany company behind it,<br>they might have more under the hood, which we cannot say.
</blockquote><div><br>
Cenon mail list archive in 2005-2006 is almost epmty. It is a bad character.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Given that font handling can also be brought under control,<br>maybe reasons to continue with a GTK port at all are getting less important.
</blockquote><div><br>
Gtk or Qt don't provide low level access to fonts which is needed for vector editor. <br>
We think FreeType binding should be used any way like in Scribus or Inkscape. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am also copying Bernhard (H.) as he probably will be interested in the<br>discussion as well and he knows most of the reasons why he wanted to move
<br>to GTK (and GNOME originally if I remember).</blockquote><div><br>
We thought that moving to Gtk was due to be closer to enterprise Linux solutions. May be<br>
this our opinion is wrong...<br>
<br>
I tried installing Skencil 0.7 trunk from repository, but build is failed because <br>
packageconfig (.pc files) on MDK 2007 is not the same as expected by install script. <br>
Of course, I can manually reconfigure these files, but regular users will not be able to<br>
make such hacks. <br>
<br>
System Gtk/Gnome binding links Skencil development to Gtk/Gnome life cycle. <br>
It's also not a good feature.<br>
<br>
If at all, installation process should be simplified like Inkscape autopackages (which also<br>
have some problems: latest v0.44 autopackage can not be installed on MDK2005 due to Gtk <br>
incompatibility). Installation problem is very important, because regular users should be able<br>
quickly and simply upgrade vector editor, like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator under Win32.<br>
</div></div><br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Igor Novikov<br>
sK1 Team<br>
<a href="http://sk1.sf.net">http://sk1.sf.net</a><br>