GTK on Macintosh OSX

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

As you all probably know, Richard Hult has withdrawn from working  
further on the osx/quartz implementation of gtk. You may not know that  
I have taken over the build, bundle, and menu integration part of that  
and consolidated it at http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net.

I'm concerned, though, about how committed the gtk development team is  
to completing and maintaining the internal parts. There are some  
serious holes (pasting and drag-and-drop don't work, just as a  
particularly egregious example). Richard told me that he hoped that  
some of his former Immendio colleagues would step up, but I don't see  
that that's happening.

Beyond that, there is a deeper problem: Mac users expect their  
applications to be easily relocatable (the preferred method for  
installing software is a self-contained application bundle which can  
be dragged to and launched from any folder); many, perhaps even most,  
of the libraries in the GTK/Gnome universe use hard-coded paths which  
are established at build time. I realize that this is a bigger problem  
than just GTK, but it needs to be addressed if GTK is to be a cross- 
platform framework competitive with Qt and WxWidgets. Perhaps if there  
is a better forum to discuss it someone here will point me at it.

Regards.
John Ralls