Re: [Gtk-osx-users] Spice modulesets

[Cliff Sharp <csharp vbridges com>]

Good suggestions.

My plan is to get Spice Client working on OSX with as little changes as possible for Phase One. That means using Gtk and X11 as it is now in Spice Client since both of these already work on OSX. In other words, just to port it to Darwin. For this phase I would not Cocoa'ize it. I am ASSUMING since OSX is Unix (Darwin) under the covers this would not be that difficult - of course I don't know how true or not this is.

Then Phase Two would be to replace/port Gtk/X11, sound, and whatever else to work on OSX. Using OpenGL, Core Audio, etc - Cocoa'ize it.

Phase Three would be to then get Phase Two working on iOS.

To date I have most of the Spice dependent libraries at least building under Darwin. I am having more difficulty getting the alsa-lib software building on Darwin.

I have not found anyone working on a Cocoa version of Spice Client. Can you let me know who these people might be? Thanks 

What do you think?

On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:08 AM, John Ralls wrote:

> 
> On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Cliff Sharp wrote:
> 
>> Spice is remote desktop software for Linux.
>> It already is written to use X11 and GTK.
>> 
>> I am porting it to OSX and iOS
>> I thought that the gtk-osx project would give me a head start with Quartz but it would be better to use OpenGL regardless.
>> 
> 
> Ah. Completely diffferent. 
> You're actually trying to build Spice-gtk (http://gitorious.org/spice-gtk/spice-gtk/trees/master/gtk), right? Looks doable except for audio. OSX and Linux have quite different sound architectures, so you'll have your work cut out getting that done.
> 
> I don't think that you'll be successful getting Apple to let you put a Gtk+ app on the iTunes Store for your iPad. I saw some archived emails indicating some folks are working on a Cocoa implementation of Spice Client. That has a better chance of getting accepted (it's also likely to work better on both OSX and iOS), so perhaps you should join that effort.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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