Hi, I'll address the technical details in another email when I can, but I just wanted to say how sorry I am for your brother and his family. I can't begin to appreciate what this was like for you. Please know that your contributions here are valued, but also that no one should hesitate to take whatever time they need to away from open source. Also, thank you for sharing your brother's story.
thanks, Kai On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 11:33, Youssef A. Abukwaik via meld-list <meld-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm the maintainer of the OSX fork. I've just pushed an update to the fork to > get my fork on par with the latest upstream code. I haven't made any updates > for a while due to personal reasons (a scumbag killed my brother in the > Christchurch terrorist attack last March). I'm now trying to catch up and get > Meld for OSX back on its feet. > > During the past three weeks, I have struggled with bringing the Mac build to > sync up with upstream. JHBuild has significantly changed. Meld has also > significantly changed. I'm not complaining about either, but I am seriously > complaining when it comes to GTK. GTK on Mac is way behind. The stable > GTK/quartz implementations is slow, incomplete and has some significant > issues. The git GTK/quartz does not even compile. > > Here are some examples: > 1. GTKHeaderBar - Meld has moved to borderless window and by using > GTKHeaderBar, the window controls (min/max/close) are now embedded within the > header bar. GTK implementation sets the flag GDK_QUARTZ_BORDERLESS_WINDOW in > gdkwindow-quartz.c, however, it never sets the flag > GDK_QUARTZ_MINIATURIZABLE_WINDOW. I'm unable to minimize the app window! Take > a look at this: > https://github.com/yousseb/meld/blob/master/meld/macwindow.py#L264 > > 2. Fullscreen mode: With the borderless window, I have big gaps around the > app from all sides.. It's much better to maximize instead of entering full > screen! > > 3. Fullscreen mode: To top it off, GTK cannot tell that it has entered > fullscreen mode on quartz. is_full = window_state & > Gdk.WindowState.FULLSCREEN is never true on GTK/quartz even if the app is > really in fullscreen > > 4. I was hoping to be able to use GTK with vulkan (https://vulkan.lunarg.com) > in order to speed things up. Vulkan is only available in the git version > (3.96) of GTK and the quartz backend does not build. This is very > disappointing because the GTK/quartz rendering is slow right now (especially > with the new borderless window which adds RGBA flag - A being the issue here > - to the main window making it report that isOpaque = false to the OS) > > I should probably take this post to the GTK mailing list, but I spent a > significant amount of hours trying to get Meld working on Mac during the past > three weeks that I just had to give you guys an idea of what's been happening > on the Mac side. I can probably get GTK 3.96 to build on Mac and create a > patch. I'll give it a shot over the next weekend. > > PS: At the time of writing this message, the binaries from my fork have been > downloaded 251,000 times. The latest version can be found here: > https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases/tag/osx-17 > > Thank you for Meld. > Please pray for Osama - > https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111375038/osama-abu-kwaik-was-a-refugee-born-to-an-orphan-who-died-in-christchurch-the-city-he-loved > > Regards, > Youssef > _______________________________________________ > meld-list mailing list > meld-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list meld-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
