[bt-devel] KDE3 on MacOS

[Chris Little]

OS X is based on BSD & Mach, true.  But OS X uses a display layer called 
Quartz, not X11.  X11 can be added, and it can even run in a rootless 
mode so that X11 and real, native OS X apps can run simultaneously on 
the same screen.  But X11 apps do not behave like Quartz apps in terms 
of interface.  The only GUI app I know of that has been ported over to 
OS X from Linux without needing X11 is GIMP.

It'll be cool to get BT running on OS X eventually, but like I said on 
sword-devel, we still need a front end for Mac Classic and the large 
downloads that this KDE3 port requires make it unrealistic for most of 
our users.

--Chris

Fred Saalbach wrote:
> I don't have a mac, however as the under pinnings of OSX in a UNIX / BSD
> variant Darwin  http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html
> porting should not be too big a deal.  Infact I would suggest that all
> is needed is to install QT/KDE and install the BSD package.  D is based
> on BSD 4.4.  There may be a few packages not included in OSX that are
> required, but I think these can be downloaded from either apple or BSD.
> 
> Apple is promoting porting to UNIX (read this loosely they don't seem to
> distinguish between UNIX and Linux) here is a link to 'Packaging UNIX
> Software For Darwin' , 
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/Packaging_UNIX_for_Darwin.html
> 
> Fred Saalbach