On 5/4/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
Oops. Major typo there.
That should read "there is *now* active work" not "there is not active work"
On May 3, 2006, at 6:01 PM, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
But the good news, as others pointed out, is that there is not active work getting GTK++ itself to be OS X native. This has been ongoing, and thus is a large reason for Inkscape developers not to reinvent the wheel when waiting a little can get it all done for free.
I'd just like to give my support for this idea. I regularly use both OS X and Windows, so I'd very much like to see a native Inkscape for OS X. But I think development efforts would be best directed into projects to port GTK rather than any specific program using GTK.
The currently active project for GTK2 is http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Gtk_Mac_OS_X
Otherwise, you could end up with the situation of several different developers all working on porting a particular OSS GTK+ app to native OS X when they could be channeling their efforts together into the GTK+ project.
I remember when I first started working with GTK apps on Windows (namely GIMP), it was kludgy and awkward - there was no real interaction with the rest of the OS and it really behaved no different to running a rootless X server. Now, GTK+ on windows has come a long way and apps like the GIMP and Inkscape feel far more native now. I've no doubt that over time this will happen with OS X GTK+ and Mac users will then have access to a wealth of OSS apps that run effectively natively, rather than just the ones that have had enough developers to be able to port successfully.
Cheers Derek