GTK+ on Native OSX Update
Hi all,
Apologies if this has been posted already, I haven't been keeping up with the list of late. But I thought those of you tracking the progress of the native GTK+ port to OSX might be interested in the following blog post from Mikael Hallendal from Imendio.
http://micke.hallendal.net/blog/2008/01/30/happenings-in-gtk/
Quote: "Our aim is to have an easily installable framework for Mac OS X finished within the next couple of weeks to make it very easy to setup your Mac OS X machine for cross platform application development with GTK+."
This is good news, as although it looks like the port still has some way to go before it is production ready, getting a framework build out there will greatly simplify testing apps like Inkscape and finding bugs.
Cheers Derek
On 2008-January-31 , at 05:56 , Derek Hinchliffe wrote:
Apologies if this has been posted already, I haven't been keeping up with the list of late. But I thought those of you tracking the progress of the native GTK+ port to OSX might be interested in the following blog post from Mikael Hallendal from Imendio.
http://micke.hallendal.net/blog/2008/01/30/happenings-in-gtk/
Quote: "Our aim is to have an easily installable framework for Mac OS X finished within the next couple of weeks to make it very easy to setup your Mac OS X machine for cross platform application development with GTK+."
This is good news, as although it looks like the port still has some way to go before it is production ready, getting a framework build out there will greatly simplify testing apps like Inkscape and finding bugs.
that's good news indeed. Some people already got Inkscape to compile and run natively on OS X quite smoothly, through MacPorts. I don't know what the Framework will look like and what it will contain. I guess some dependencies of Inkscape will probably be missing so we'll need to provide them otherwise and I'm curious how the two (framework + macports probably) will interact. Anyway that's good news indeed. 0.47 will be the release of OSX integration for Inkscape.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
Hi,
that's good news indeed. Some people already got Inkscape to compile and run natively on OS X quite smoothly, through MacPorts. I don't know what the Framework will look like and what it will contain. I guess some dependencies of Inkscape will probably be missing so we'll need to provide them otherwise and I'm curious how the two (framework
- macports probably) will interact.
One of those is me I believe. In free time I wish to finish making standalone bundle of Inkscape without those intermediate bash scripts.
Next thing. I've browsed some docs, and it won't be hard at all to write a GTK engine as well that is using Appearance Manager API to draw native GUI elements, so all I can say GTK is very close to works natively on OSX, which is very cool.
I'll try to contact GTK guys asking them if they consider to write such engine. Well I just looked into QT sources and they did it pretty well for QT.
Ciao,
On 2008-January-31 , at 15:12 , Adam Strzelecki wrote:
that's good news indeed. Some people already got Inkscape to compile and run natively on OS X quite smoothly, through MacPorts. I don't know what the Framework will look like and what it will contain. I guess some dependencies of Inkscape will probably be missing so we'll need to provide them otherwise and I'm curious how the two (framework
- macports probably) will interact.
One of those is me I believe.
yes indeed ;)
In free time I wish to finish making standalone bundle of Inkscape without those intermediate bash scripts.
Next thing. I've browsed some docs, and it won't be hard at all to write a GTK engine as well that is using Appearance Manager API to draw native GUI elements, so all I can say GTK is very close to works natively on OSX, which is very cool.
I'll try to contact GTK guys asking them if they consider to write such engine. Well I just looked into QT sources and they did it pretty well for QT.
very cool. I hope GTK will make it a little better than QT though. I still find QT apps to look a bit alien on OS X. but maybe I'm asking too much. Anyway, it's great that it is conceptually easy. The refinements can come later.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:12 +0100, Adam Strzelecki wrote:
I'll try to contact GTK guys asking them if they consider to write such engine. Well I just looked into QT sources and they did it pretty well for QT.
While I really think integration is important, it is also important to note that the QT code and the GTK+ code aren't directly license compatibility. GTK+ is LGPL and QT is GPL. I'm not a lawyer, but be careful.
--Ted
On Jan 31, 2008 12:06 AM, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
On 2008-January-31 , at 05:56 , Derek Hinchliffe wrote:
Apologies if this has been posted already, I haven't been keeping up with the list of late. But I thought those of you tracking the progress of the native GTK+ port to OSX might be interested in the following blog post from Mikael Hallendal from Imendio.
http://micke.hallendal.net/blog/2008/01/30/happenings-in-gtk/
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that's good news indeed. Some people already got Inkscape to compile and run natively on OS X quite smoothly, through MacPorts.
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In case any else with an old Mac is curious, the gtk macport requires 10.4 or higher, so X11 will still be required for Inkscape for 10.3.9.
, John
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