Re: gtk-quartz for osx

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 20:54 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, electroteque wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to know, ive given up and now installing xorg via fink 
> > "slowly"
> 
> Me too, and probably many others.  GTK will currently run "OK" on OS 
> X in X11 mode, but IMO this is really a "hackers only" mode, since 
> apps have to started in a special way and do not behave as Mac users 
> expect (to put it mildly).
> 
> We have "native" GTK on win32, and that's very nice.  It seems that 
> "native" GTK on OS X has been given less priority.  Partly, of 
> course, that's because there are very much fewer OS X users than 
> win32 users.  But I suspect it's also partly because developers tend 
> to think, "Well, you can run GTK under X11 on the Mac, so what's the 
> fuss?"
> 
> I speak as someone who uses Linux exclusively, so I have no direct 
> personal gain in view.  Simply, as someone who likes to prolesytize 
> GTK, it would be great to have a functional native GTK on OS X, and 
> not just for OS X 10.4.+

It seems like from this long thread that what's needed is not 
native GTK+ for OS X, but rather a binary distribution of native
GTK+ for OS X...

					Owen