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Repeatable crash when opening any SVG from macOS finder

Summary:

With Inkscape V1.4.2 on macOS I have associated .svg files with Inkscape. Whenever I try to "Open" an SVG using macOS Finder (or other apps that use OS mechanisms), Inkscape always crashes. If I manually open the same file from Inkscape, no crash. With Inkscape open in the background I get this backtrace:

<pre>
 0# Inkscape::Application::crash_handler(int) in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.1.4.2.0.dylib
 1# _sigtramp in /usr/lib/system/libsystem_platform.dylib
 2# InkscapeApplication::on_activate() in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/inkscape/libinkscape_base.1.4.2.0.dylib
 3# Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*) in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libglibmm-2.4.1.dylib
 4# g_closure_invoke in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
 5# signal_emit_unlocked_R in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
 6# g_signal_emit_valist in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
 7# g_signal_emit in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib
 8# g_application_real_local_command_line in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib
 9# g_application_run in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib
10# main in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape
</pre>
<details><summary>System info</summary>
Inkscape 1.4.2 (ebf0e940, 2025-05-08)

                      Compile  (Run)
    GLib version:     2.76.3
    GTK version:      3.24.42 (3.24.42)
    glibmm version:   2.66.6
    gtkmm version:    3.24.9
    libxml2 version:  2.11.4
    libxslt version:  1.1.29
    Cairo version:    1.18.0 (1.18.0)
    Pango version:    1.50.14 (1.50.14)
    HarfBuzz version: 8.0.1 (8.0.1)

    OS version:       macOS 15.6 (24G5065c) arm64
</details>

With Inkscape closed I get a macOS crash report dialog with the following crash report:

crash.log

Steps to reproduce:

  • Try to open an SVG file with macOS Finder.

What happened?

Crash

What should have happened?

Inkscape opens the SVG

Version info

Inkscape 1.4.2 (ebf0e940, 2025-05-08)

                      Compile  (Run)
    GLib version:     2.76.3
    GTK version:      3.24.42 (3.24.42)
    glibmm version:   2.66.6
    gtkmm version:    3.24.9
    libxml2 version:  2.11.4
    libxslt version:  1.1.29
    Cairo version:    1.18.0 (1.18.0)
    Pango version:    1.50.14 (1.50.14)
    HarfBuzz version: 8.0.1 (8.0.1)

    OS version:       macOS 15.6 (24G5065c) arm64
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