[Mono-osx] I want to help developing Mac Mono

Miguel de Icaza miguel at novell.com
Tue May 19 13:51:11 EDT 2009


> Is someone doing something like this?  If so, how can I contribute?   
> If not, how can I start a project for developing the variant of  
> System.Drawing that I described?  Can I help the development of other  
> libraries I mentioned?  Do you have any suggestions?

System.Drawing is not really the problem, and chances are, it will not
advance very much this agenda.

Here is what needs to happen for Winforms to be better on OSX:

	* A theme engine that offers a rendering that looks like OSX
	  must be implemented.

	  Bonus complexity: implementing the various styles that OSX
	  has come up with.

	* Fix and find bugs in the native Carbon driver.

	* Complete the Carbon driver, fix all FIXMEs, TODOs and 
	  stubs.





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