Re: EasyTAG on OS X

[Tony Young <tony rfw name>]

Hi David,

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:23 PM, David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:
> Hi Tony
>
>
> On 2013-08-18 11:33, Tony Young <tony rfw name> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:34 AM, David King <amigadave amigadave com>
> > wrote:
> > > On 2013-08-17 22:54, Tony Young <tony rfw name> wrote:
> >
> > I assume you're talking about http://marcoschuh.de/wp/?page_id=411 --
> > I took a look at it and it seems to do roughly the same things I did
> > (except without ifdefs for non-OS X).
>
>
> Oops, I did mean that, yes. Good to know, thanks.
>
>
> > > Is there any chance that the menu and primary (Control/Meta) changes
> > > would
> > > not be needed with a port to GTK+ 3 and GtkApplication? If so, I would
> > > much
> > > rather do that and avoid having ifdefs that I will rarely test. I would
> > > be
> > > happy to do the associated cleanup and refactoring for good GTK+ 3
> > > integration (GAction and GMenu support, mostly).
> >
> >
> > There isn't any automatic support for OS X menus in GTK3 either, so
> > unfortunately there needs to be ifdef'd sections for proper OS X
> > support -- the application can build without the optional menu
> > support, but just looks really out of place on OS X.
>
>
> That does not seem to be true, as the GtkApplication documentation shows Mac
> OS X menu integration:
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkApplication.html#GtkApplication.description
>
> Presumably, the GTK+ application menu is used as the menu structure for the
> application menu in OS X.

Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I've mostly been looking at the
GtkosxApplication documentation[1] which doesn't mention anything
about GtkApplication. I'll take a look into it -- I haven't really
worked with GTK before and I just wanted to get something running
natively on OS X, so sorry for all the futzing around!

1. http://www.grisbi.org/download/devel/MacOSX/Sources/gtk-doc/gtk-mac-integration-0.9/GtkosxApplication.html

> > There's a function in `GtkosxApplication` called
> > `gtk_osxapplication_set_use_quartz_accelerators` that implies that it
> > would fix the shortcuts appropriately -- but doesn't, so I don't
> > believe gtk-mac-integration has support for modifying key bindings
> > automatically.

> I think that with GTK+ 3 "<Primary>" can be used rather than "<Ctrl>" or
> "<Meta>", and the platform-specific modifier will be used. This even seems
> to be supported in recent versions of GTK+ 2, since 2.24.7.

Ah, right you are! Thanks.

> > The GTK dependencies were all pulled in from jhbuild and the libraries
> > for media files (libogg, libid3tag etc.) were from Brew. There doesn't
> > seem to be any problem with linking libraries in both places and, when
> > bundling, gtk-mac-bundler pulls libraries from both locations into the
> > app bundle.
>
>
> Thanks. Is there any way to cross-compile for Mac OS X or is a Mac required?
> I have access to a Mac, but I am curious how difficult it would be for
> others to reproduce the setup.

I believe that you would need to compile on OS X due to dependencies
with Cocoa and OS X system libraries. I'm not aware of anything that
lets you cross-compile to OS X from Linux (but I could be wrong).

> > Building for GTK3 on OS X is painful and requires a lot of fiddling
> > around with dependencies and patches for installing
> > gnome-themes-standard so users aren't stuck with Raleigh, but when
> > better support for GTK3 in jhbuild arrives, it should build fairly
> > painlessly.
>
>
> That is a shame, but I look forward to better support in jhbuild.

There might be a proper way to do it, but I haven't managed to figure it out.

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:11 PM, David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:
> On 2013-08-18 10:23, David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:
> > I think that with GTK+ 3 "<Primary>" can be used rather than "<Ctrl>" or
> > "<Meta>", and the platform-specific modifier will be used. This even
> > seems to be supported in recent versions of GTK+ 2, since 2.24.7.
>
>
> I made EasyTAG use "Primary" as an accelerator modifier in master:
>
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/easytag/commit/?id=1f15ebcf47d58b9511309445f8f7e910f147f469
>
> This works fine on X11, but testing on Mac OS X would be appreciated.

This works fine on OS X too :)

Cheers,
Tony