Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Oct 2005 00:02 UTC, submitted by carbon-12
Imendio announced that it has been working on a port of native Gtk+ for Mac OS X.
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RE: umm, but isn't OS X way prettier than GTK?
by zerblat on Fri 7th Oct 2005 05:18
in reply to "umm, but isn't OS X way prettier than GTK?"
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The toolkit doens't have anything to do with the dropshadows, that's done by the windowing system. If you look at the screenshots, the GTK windows do have dropshadows: http://people.imendio.com/mitch/screenshots/gimp-on-os-x.png
As for "more graphically sophisticated", I'm not sure what that means, but Cairo gives you features comparable to Quartz.
So isn't this a step BACKWARD for that platform?
You don't have to use it, but GTK opens the door to making more native-looking ports of Free Software. For whatever reason, there doesn't seem to be a lot of native Free Software.
RE[2]: umm, but isn't OS X way prettier than GTK?
by on Fri 7th Oct 2005 05:39
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OK, I use both Linux and Mac OS X, but I thought it was generally agreed that OS X widgets and screens are far more graphically sophisticated (drop shadows for windows, for instance) than GTK apps. So isn't this a step BACKWARD for that platform?