The article is dead on... there is absolutely no way Xara can expect developers to volunteer time on a project that can easily be pulled from under the developers feet at any moment. That's exactly...
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The article is dead on... there is absolutely no way Xara can expect developers to volunteer time on a project that can easily be pulled from under the developers feet at any moment. That's exactly...
Remi, the BIGGEST problem is with companies that clearly are benefiting from Open Source software but never giving back to the open source community. Be it contributions to the code or monetary...
CDraw is not the be all and end all of everything... At some point in the near future I'm certain CDraw will be irrelevant, and whatever fork (if any) of Xaralx survives will function just as well if...
I agree with Jed... It seems Xara approached this project with distrust and uncertainty from the beginning. Had they approached it with a more optimistic outlook, the project could have been a huge...
Yes, that is true at the moment. That has to do with the fact that Xara never really attracted a large number of Linux users/developers, this is in part due to the CDraw issue. But, that doesn't...
Nice posting, but I have to disagree with tremendous about the stability of Inkscape vs. stability of Xara.
In my experience Xara has many more stability issues than Inkcape does. Even when...
The problem is that a Cairo implementation is going to be somewhat slower. Cairo doesn't yet have the speed optimizations that would allow it to complete with CDraw. QT would probably be a much...
Unfortunately, I think the Xara developers sealed the fate of this project when they allowed it to stagnate, supposedly to focus on the commercial Windows version. Also, their unwillingness or...
I think it has been discussed before, but definitely hasn't been a priority. Up to this point, I think that lack of a xar importer is in part due to Inkscape's inability to replicate some of Xara's...
Even though it's not an XML standardized format like SVG, a xar exporter would definitely be nice to have in Inkscape. The compactness of the xar format is great. But honestly, I would prefer to see...
This is good news for Linux users because it means yet another choice and a and hopefully one that will not see the stagnation that has occurred here in this project.
Although Cairo does need some...
I think Charles Moir is a bit mistaken on some of the assumptions he makes.
While many Linux users do use some closed commercial software. It is largely restricted to that of which there is no...
It's very sad to see development for Xara Xtreme on Linux stagnate as it has... I really was hoping that Xtreme would have a promising future on Linux, but it's has become clear that Xara is not...
I have the same problem using ubuntu 6.10 & the latest Beryl/XGL. I believe I submitted a bug report about this problem a while back.
With more and more Linux users using AIGLX/XGL & Compiz/Beryl,...
jedfrechette,
I completely agree with you on this... The reason OSS developers are not flocking to help with Xara Xtreme development is because there are too many questions about the dedication of...
I noticed that there is no longer a link to the open source version of Xara Xtreme for Linux on Xara.com. Please tell me this isn't so :( Xtreme for linux is too good to become abandon-ware.
I was wondering if there is a change log for each build of Xara Xtreme? It would be nice if we could see a summary of the changes, if any, that have been made from build to build for both stable and...
Now I'm perplexed:confused: Since the color picker worked fine on my laptop that doesn't use XGL and didn't work on my desktop that uses XGL, I assumed it was a problem Xara Xtreme was having with...
Thanks Alex, I will do that.
Glad you liked the video Drifter, but that is not my desktop. That's just one of the many XGL videos I found on YouTube. Right now my system is using a newer...
I haven't seen anyone mention this problem on this board, but it seems that the Xara Xtreme color picker doesn't work properly on systems that use XGL/Compiz. I'm currently using ubuntu 6.06 dapper...