Re: GTK+ Mac OS X state of the union

[John Ehresman <jpe wingware com>]

Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> I'm sorry for what may be a stupid question. Why do we need a bridge
> API (assuming that there's a 1:1 mapping between Cocoa and GTK+ menus)
> if we're already putting the onus on developers to:

Because hopefully gtk will make it possible to build a OS X application 
without any knowledge of the native cocoa api, just as it makes it 
possible to create apps without knowing the win32 or xlib api's.  Over 
time, methods of creating menus will probably be developed that hide 
some of the platform differences -- e.g. create a default menu, put in 
menu bar on OS X or add a copy to the top of each window on X11 or 
win32.  It's more complicated than that, but such a facility should be 
possible.

John