[Mono-dev] SWF, gtk#, OSX, Linux, Win32, GUI's thougths?

[ted leslie]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:15:17 -0600
CODY RUSSELL <cody at jhu.edu> wrote:

> I think OSX support for GTK just went into cvs recently.

with no need for X11? can anyone confirm this?

-tl

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ted leslie <tleslie at tcn.net>
> Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:04 pm
> Subject: [Mono-dev] SWF, gtk#, OSX, Linux, Win32, GUI's thougths?
> 
> > 
> > I would just like to get some thoughts and clarifications about a 
> > few things.
> > 
> > 1) It says SWF at end of month.. and then months of testing.. when 
> > will it likely debut in the
> > 	standard distribution (dowload page) , and not be a cvs only? 
> > 
> > 2) It is mentioned how SWF will work on Win32, OSX and linux, is it 
> > possible that the release that
> > 	has SWF will "for sure" have SWF working on all three 
> > Win32/Linux/OSX, with OSX not needing X11
> > 	support .. or may it be the case that it could come out, at fisrt, 
> > not supporting OSX?
> > 
> > 3) No IP flames intended here (just assume there might be an issue) 
> > ... 
> > 	Having been around Mono now for 2+ years, I have seen much written
> > 	about the licensing and IP issues. Let just assume for this 
> > question that there is a possibly a MS
> > 	IP "issue" that could come along for SWF in the future. I would 
> > really rather use GTK# 
> > 	for win32/linux/OSX x-platform dev. (call it personal choice) but 
> > as we know gtk# for 
> > 	native OSX (no X11 deps.) is no where is sight. So this (above) 
> > got me thinking -
> > 	We know a certain portion of people on/in the Mono project are MS 
> > people (which is great,
> > 	Mono needs that), and the MS people are of course going to want 
> > SWF for their GUI a lot of
> > 	the time? But is it not true that many others would want gtk#? and 
> > in fact from what I see 
> > 	in the demo pages, gtk# IS very popular. So I find it odd that 
> > gtk# support for native
> > 	OSX is still perhaps completely out of sight, yet we could be 
> > close to having SWF for
> > 	native OSX now? and there are possibly some IP issue with SWF on 
> > linux/OSX. So the end
> > 	result of my thinking is .. is there not a disproportionate amount 
> > of time being spent
> > 	on SWF on native OSX than gtk# on native OSX? maybe the answer is -
> > that i am one
> > 	of about 5 people that care about using  gtk# on native OSX :(
> > 	Or perhaps SWF for native OSX came very easy? and gtk# for native 
> > OSX is very hard to implement? 
> > 
> > -tl
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