launching Inkscape on macOS about inkscape-figures HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks for your input! Relevant Inkscape (outdated?) docs: MacOSX#Inkscape command line. A bit confusing to be honest. I think we should probably

1. check if inkscape is in the path (checkout return code of which inkscape)
2. check if /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape exists
3. check if /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape exists,

and depending on that execute the right file. Sounds good?

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Not familiar with MacOS, but I think the code as is should work if your path is setup correctly, so I'm hesitant to change it right now. What are your thoughts @pierreglaser?

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inkscape is not so straightfoward to install on MacOS, and I may have symlink-ed inkscape to some place in my $PATH at some point in the process when developing inkscape-figures MacOS suppport. Apologies if this ended up breaking your setup @adir-ux.

/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape sounds like a reasonable place for an Inkscape executable to be on MacOS. But so is $PATH. So if we want to support the two, we will need some form of fallback mechanism. Is there any guidelines from the inkscape folks on how to launch inkscape from the command line in MacOS? If not, I would be slightly in favor of supporting @adir-ux 's situation.

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if set to /Applications/Inkscape , would it check the PATH as well?

on Inkscape wiki I found this link to /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape /usr/local/bin

but running
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape
returns "no such file or directory", so I assume it applies only to the older xquartz versions.

someone on StackOverflow suggested the location I pointed.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60068607

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sounds great.

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Moved off-topic conversation to issue #23.

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