I think OSX support for GTK just went into cvs recently. ----- Original Message ----- From: ted leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:04 pm Subject: [Mono-dev] SWF, gtk#, OSX, Linux, Win32, GUI's thougths?
> > I would just like to get some thoughts and clarifications about a > few things. > > 1) It says SWF at end of month.. and then months of testing.. when > will it likely debut in the > standard distribution (dowload page) , and not be a cvs only? > > 2) It is mentioned how SWF will work on Win32, OSX and linux, is it > possible that the release that > has SWF will "for sure" have SWF working on all three > Win32/Linux/OSX, with OSX not needing X11 > support .. or may it be the case that it could come out, at fisrt, > not supporting OSX? > > 3) No IP flames intended here (just assume there might be an issue) > ... > Having been around Mono now for 2+ years, I have seen much written > about the licensing and IP issues. Let just assume for this > question that there is a possibly a MS > IP "issue" that could come along for SWF in the future. I would > really rather use GTK# > for win32/linux/OSX x-platform dev. (call it personal choice) but > as we know gtk# for > native OSX (no X11 deps.) is no where is sight. So this (above) > got me thinking - > We know a certain portion of people on/in the Mono project are MS > people (which is great, > Mono needs that), and the MS people are of course going to want > SWF for their GUI a lot of > the time? But is it not true that many others would want gtk#? and > in fact from what I see > in the demo pages, gtk# IS very popular. So I find it odd that > gtk# support for native > OSX is still perhaps completely out of sight, yet we could be > close to having SWF for > native OSX now? and there are possibly some IP issue with SWF on > linux/OSX. So the end > result of my thinking is .. is there not a disproportionate amount > of time being spent > on SWF on native OSX than gtk# on native OSX? maybe the answer is - > that i am one > of about 5 people that care about using gtk# on native OSX :( > Or perhaps SWF for native OSX came very easy? and gtk# for native > OSX is very hard to implement? > > -tl > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list