I think he meant that Mac port of the application should look and behave like other Mac apps (following the system conventions and GUI guidelines), not that you

I think he meant that Mac port of the application should look and behave like other Mac apps (following the system conventions and GUI guidelines), not that you should force Mac conventions everywhere. I guess there's two levels of porting programs: 1. make it compile and run 2. change the UI and behavior to be in line with the system conventions Most OSS programs which are not developed primarily on Mac only do 1.