On Mar 15 2025, at 4:18 pm, Jonathan Neuhauser <jonathan.neuhauser@outlook.com> wrote:

Martin is rewiting the Splash screen because it is reliably crashing MacOS 1.4.1 after 15 seconds of use.
René warns that this shows that 1.4.x is basically untested on MacOS.

The Tofu character fix on MacOS (Pango update) has a side effect: it breaks kerning for everybody in the UI. GIMP has the same issue (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/12736). There is a workaround - manually selecting the correct system font - but that also sometimes breaks, https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/issues/1508. He suggests to delay the Pango update, we leave the decision to René.

Noticed that the Gramps folks just added an OSX package for their latest RC. Not sure if there's anything to be learned there, but it is another GTK program trying to target OSX.

https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps/releases/tag/v6.0.0-rc2

Ted