Re: Gnome in MAC OS X/x11

[Ole Guldberg Jensen <olegb opendarwin org>]

Karl D. Middlebrooks wrote:
> Fink is probably the easiest way to get a Gnome version working on OS X. 
> However, I believe that Fink is only up to the 2.4 release of Gnome (the 
> current version is 2.6.1, I believe). There's also Darwinports at 
> http://darwinports.org; I haven't used it a lot, but it's reasonably 
> easy to get around with as well, and I believe they may have ported 
> Gnome 2.6 (at least, they have a portfile for the 2.6 version of the 
> gnome-vfs package, which is a good sign.

we do have gnome 2.6, and i am hoping to bump the version to 2.6.1 in 
about 3 weeks (or later if i have the time).

the ports available in our gnome category is here: 
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/?by=cat&substr=gnome

and we have a mailing-list for gnopies (traffic non existing): 
http://opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-darwinports

> If you are really, really, really bored and more than a little bit 
> masochistic, you can build everything for Gnome 2.6 by hand from the 
> sources available at http://www.gnome.org (and a few other places). I've 
> gone this unfortunate route twice (once with horrible results and an 
> unusable Gnome desktop, and once quite successfully, though with a few 
> minor oddities that also seem to appear on x86 linux boxes); it requires 
> a fair amount of patching and a lot of patience.

true :)

well, happy hacking,

olegb