[Mono-list] Cross-platform GUI.

[Erik Dasque]

My two cents.

There is a GTK# installer coming for MacOS X.

I second David's affirmation though I will modify it slightly:

> The Mac favouring Mono hackers would be doing us a great favour if 
> they could commit some resources to a 'native' OSX GTK port. The 
> current ports are pretty stalled. GTK-OSX is nearly there but is only 
> GTK 1.2,
> GTK-Quartz didn't get very far at all.

The Mono favoring Mac hackers would be doing us a great favor if they 
could commit some resources to a 'native' OSX GTK port. The current 
ports are pretty stalled.

Or actually, Apple could/should.

Erik

On Jul 26, 2004, at 2:57 PM, David Burnett wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:02:36AM -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
>
> > > Amazing.  I didn't that Gtk itself was ported to Mac OS X.
> >
> > To clarify, The Gtk X11 backend works under X11 on OS X. There is no
> > port that uses CoreGraphics.
>
> And that's going to be a major problem with regards to the OSX 
> community accepting Mono/GTK# apps in IMHO.
>
> The Mac favouring Mono hackers would be doing us a great favour if 
> they could commit some resources to a 'native' OSX GTK port. The 
> current ports are pretty stalled. GTK-OSX is nearly there but is only 
> GTK 1.2,
> GTK-Quartz didn't get very far at all.
>
> The problem is that porting GTK needs some experienced GTK / X11 
> hackers to help out. People who know exactly what events should be 
> fired and when.
>
> Dave
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