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msarnoff ◴[13 Oct 24 23:53 UTC] No.41832790[source]▶
I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.
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smitelli ◴[17 Oct 24 23:10 UTC] No.41874740[source]▶
They’ve historically been quite open about needing help on the macOS front. For example, https://inkscape.org/news/2021/06/22/seeking-macos-dev-contr...
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Gigachad ◴[18 Oct 24 04:01 UTC] No.41876235[source]▶
I’d imagine there just isn’t a huge group of people who work on foss software, and use Mac.

I’ve noticed that just in general foss apps which work great on Linux, are often broken on macOS.

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pilaf ◴[18 Oct 24 04:45 UTC] No.41876415[source]▶
Yeah, happened to GIMP as well, for a while they didn't have anyone in charge of macOS builds, so they just skipped the platform for a few releases.
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1. wccrawford ◴[18 Oct 24 12:00 UTC] No.41878576[source]▶
I suspect that not only relieved some of their own stress, but also sent a very clear message to the community that someone needed to take up that slack if they wanted OSX builds.