As you all probably know, Richard Hult has withdrawn from working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
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