Re: Cocoa front end

["Derek Wyatt" <derek derekwyatt org>]

Miguel and Oswald,

Thanks guys. My idea was to exercise some cocoa/objc skills. If most of my time is going to be spent not doing that, then I gotta find something else. 

Thanks for the tips guys. 
Cheers,
Derek

------Original Message------
From: Miguel de Icaza
To: derek derekwyatt org
Cc: mc-devel gnome org
Subject: Re: Cocoa front end
Sent: Feb 22, 2009 01:35

Hello,

> Looking at the code, it appears as though there may be some  
> refactoring required to abstract the UI a bit more before trying to  
> slap an objective-c gui on there (I write C++ almost exclusively  
> nowadays and haven't been in the pure C world for quite some  
> time :D). Does that seem like a reasonable statement to most?

A engine/GUI split was done at one point and we used to have a number  
of front-ends, one for GNOME, and one that used Tk.

The results were not pretty.   The code became a mess, and the GUI  
model vs the terminal model just did not blend well.

It might be much better to start an effort from scratch in that case,  
you will end up with something that is better integrated into the core  
OS than trying to build a UI on top.
>



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