Gtk# is a project to provide a GUI for portable ICS/.net applications, built
with either mono or pnet (or Visual Studio.net, or that matter). Since
WinForms support isn't there yet in mono, and may never be there for pnet,
you pretty much need either this or Qt# for now if you want to do .net on
linux. In fact, even when WinForms support is done, you may prefer Gtk# (or
Qt#) because you're more comfortable with Gtk+/Glade (Qt/Qdesigner)
development than Win32/VS, or because you want a truly free solution.
Gtk# should work with both pnet and mono, but I've only tested with mono, and
only building a simple Hello World app.
I based this package on the Redhat 0.7 package from the Gtk# website; the
description seems a little odd to me, but I left it alone.
In building Gtk#, I discovered problems with two existing packages, so I've
submitted fixes for those as well.
The mono-0.23-2mdk package installed broken scripts in /usr/bin/msc and
/usr/bin/mbas that pointed into the packager's build root. The problem is
that the script that generates these scripts expects to find the real
binaries in the install directory, which obviously isn't true when you're
packaging. This should probably be fixed properly with the mono people; for
now, I just added two lines to the specfile to overwrite these scripts.
The gnome-db-0.2.96-6mdk package didn't include pkgconfig support, and
wouldn't build without errors (because it installed but did not package the
help files).
The gtk-sharp package requires my updated mono and gnome-db devel packages to
build, but binaries should install just fine with the existing versions.
The mono packages don't install the monodoc tools or the mono documentation,
so I didn't install the Gtk# docs either. This should probably be changed in
the future (or maybe separate monodoc, mono-docs, and gtk-sharp-docs packages
would be better?).
Someone should package Qt# (especially given Mandrake's slight Qt/KDE
preference), but it might be a while before I get around to it (since I've
barely even looked at Qt#).
