Re: GTK+ Quartz Project started

[Max Horn <max quendi de>]

At 8:49 Uhr +0200 11.09.2001, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
>  > For any of those of you interested in helping, please join the
> >  GTK-Quartz-Devel mailing list at
> >  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-quartz-devel
>
> You might want to summarize here what the Quartz project is, without assuming
> that people already know.

And also give a slightly better explanation at the SourceForge head 
page about it :)

To cite that "Native port of GTK+ to Mac OS X using Quartz"


A bit longer: Quartz is the graphic's backend of MacOS X. It contains 
the window manage and the CoreGraphics graphic API. We can currently 
already use GTK+ on OS X using XFre86, however, the goal is to get 
GTK apps running without X-Window, since the avarage MacOS X has no 
X-Window installed.


To this goal, we will have to write a new backend for GDK, besides 
some other things. This will actually involve much more of the OS X 
API than just Quartz, e.g. for input handling (keyboard, mouse etc.), 
something which is my profession more than the graphics stuff :)


I think you guys will get a lot of questions from us in the near 
future if we fail to understand something in the internal workings of 
GDK/GTK :)


Max
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