seeing the importance of cross-platform GUIs, especially MacOS X and
Windows port of our GUI application, I double-checked the portability
issues with GTK+ (and GTK--) on these platforms.
this does raise the question: should we try to minimize our losses, and
switch to Qt, which has a native port under MacOS X? (both these
libraries have working ports on Windows)
At 17:03 04.10.2005, Ákos Maróy wrote:
>seeing the importance of cross-platform GUIs, especially MacOS X and
>Windows port of our GUI application, I double-checked the portability
>issues with GTK+ (and GTK--) on these platforms.
>
>There are bad news on the horizon: it seems that there is no native port
>of GTK+ for MacOS X (for details see here:
>http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2005-September/msg00281.html )
>
>
>this does raise the question: should we try to minimize our losses, and
>switch to Qt, which has a native port under MacOS X? (both these
>libraries have working ports on Windows)
i guess if yes, the sooner the better...
but i really have no understanding what this involves work wise - i.e.
money wise. can we link this to a project? i.e. there could be funding for
an implementation which has portage budgetted into it?
sorry to ask the money question, but without knowing what this implies
timewise, it is hard to give an answer.
Micz Flor wrote:
> At 17:03 04.10.2005, Ákos Maróy wrote:
>
>> seeing the importance of cross-platform GUIs, especially MacOS X and
>> Windows port of our GUI application, I double-checked the portability
>> issues with GTK+ (and GTK--) on these platforms.
>>
>> There are bad news on the horizon: it seems that there is no native port
>> of GTK+ for MacOS X (for details see here:
>> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2005-September/msg00281.html )
>>
>>
>> this does raise the question: should we try to minimize our losses, and
>> switch to Qt, which has a native port under MacOS X? (both these
>> libraries have working ports on Windows)
>
>
> i guess if yes, the sooner the better...
Why not step out the QT/GTK discussion and move to something real
crossplatform? XUL for example.
Micz Flor wrote:
> i guess if yes, the sooner the better...
>
> but i really have no understanding what this involves work wise - i.e.
> money wise. can we link this to a project? i.e. there could be funding
> for an implementation which has portage budgetted into it?
yes, that would be the best.
actually, as far as Linux and Windows is concerned, we're well off with
GTK+. it seems Qt would be beneficial when it comes to MacOS X and
smaller devices (like cell phones)
> sorry to ask the money question, but without knowing what this implies
> timewise, it is hard to give an answer.
this couldn't be said without a thorough investigation, but is sure in
the 2+ month timeframe...