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GTK+ on OSX is finally available
- llimllib 18y agoI want native gimp, and I see a screenshot on the developer page, but I don't see how I would get it (short of downloading and compiling myself). Anybody know more than I? (edit: trying out http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ )
- tjr 18y agoNot full Gimp, but if can get by with a more basic graphics editor, this works native on OS X: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php
- jws 18y agoLast I tried you could download native gimp, but it was fatally flawed in its keyboard handling. Nice progress, but still more work to go. It's been a while since there was an update, so no breath holding.
- Zev 18y agoUp till now, the "native" Gimp still used X11 (which is being worked on (see Xquartz), but still buggy) for OS X. And X11 isn't exactly native on OS X by any means.
- mseebach 18y agoThis, and the app-store debacle, is the kind of stuff that makes me think that Apple isn't in it for the long haul. Why doesn't MacOSX ship with native GTK? And Qt? Why hasn't OpenOffice worked seamlessly from day 1? Or at least day 5? Why don't Apple embrace the huge community that worships their products, instead of becoming the next Microsoft? What have they got to loose? If getting my favourite Linux apps to run on my MacBook had bees as easy as apt-get, heck, even as easy as under Windows, I'd still use Mac OS X.. now it's running Kubuntu, and I'm regretting not getting a ThinkPad. I'm disappointed, I REALLY wanted to like MacOSX.
- zain 18y agoSounds like you REALLY wanted MacOSX to be Linux.
- j2d2 18y agoIt also sounds like he REALLY isn't apple's market anyway.
- nailer 18y agoMost software developers want that - or, more specifically, all the benefits of Linux with mainstream hardware and application support. What's wrong with that?
- wmf 18y agoIs GTK really a benefit compared to Cocoa?
- Niten 18y agoYeah, Cocoa is hot and all, but just try getting that nice shiny Cocoa app of yours running on all three of OS X, Linux, and Windows...
- wmf 18y agoIf you want to write a cross-platform app, I argue that GTK is still not a very good solution. I wonder how Adobe is progressing with their cross-platform Cocoa-based CS5.
- stcredzero 18y agoYou'd probably be better off with wxWidgets or Qt than GTK.
- orib 18y agoUh, What? Mainstream hardware support from OSX? Not only does it have poor support for common hardware, it has artificially restricted support. What it does support, it supports reasonably well, but that hardly qualifies OSX as a system that supports mainstream hardware.
- PStamatiou 18y agoDoes this mean I can run pidgin/gaim on osx now?
- yan 18y agoHave you ever looked at adium?
- michaelneale 18y agoUnified IRC and IM would be nice (I like pidgin).
- Zev 18y agoAdium has an IRC plugin that you can build. And iirc, the Adium devs are aiming for IRC in 1.4
- PStamatiou 18y agoI use adium.. but I like being nostalgic over gaim.