Re: Looking to pay someone to improve gtk+ on osx.

[Lucas Meijer <lucas unity3d com>]

On 6/6/10 11:47 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Lucas Meijer<lucas unity3d com>  wrote:
>    
> > Hi,
> > My company (Unity3d.com) cares about getting MonoDevelop to run great on
> > osx.
> > MonoDevelop uses gtk+, which on osx has a whole array of problems,
> > especially on multi monitor setups.
> > I'm looking for a hacker who would like to do some contracting work to find
> > these bugs and fix them.
> > (lots of focus issues, causing buttons and many other interface elements to
> > randomly not work).
> >      
> it would definitely help to specify the version of GTK that you are using.
>
> Ardour uses GTK+ and we (I, fundamentally) have been actively involved
> in the OS X backend. We recently switched to the GTK 2.22 branch, and
> the only problem we see at present may be the same as the focus issue
> you mention: menus and occasionally buttons that do not get mouse
> focus when displayed. I can't guarantee that the fix will come from
> me, but I know that one of our commercial partners would really like
> to see this fixed, so we do have some motivation to try to address
> that one.
>    
<blush> we were on a way too old version, thinking we were on a very 
recent version</blush>

We do still see some problems, but the experience is 10x better.

We'll try to get repro cases for the remaining problems we've seen from 
time to time.

Thanks,

  Lucas