[sword-devel] KDE3 on MacOS

[Chris Little]

This is very cool.  I guess the fink guys were either lying when they said 
KDE couldn't run on Mac (it was a filesystem-related hurdle because KDE is 
so ext2-dependent) or KDE3 has changed enough to make it possible where 
previous versions weren't.

At the same time, this is not a solution to the lack of a Sword frontend 
for Mac.  Besides, GNOME has run on MacOS X for over a year, so we could 
have worked hard to get GnomeSword running on OS X and just pointed people 
to that all this time.

The problems are, fink is a huge install, X11 is a huge install, and X11 
is not Quartz.  Furthermore, while this is a partial solution for MacOS X
users, it still leaves Mac OS Classic users behind.  The full solution is
for us to develop two native Mac frontends, one for OS X and one for
Classic.  It sounds like we have a couple independent efforts to develop 
native OS X frontends, using the different toolkits available.  And the 
Spatha project could serve as a MacOS Classic native frontend, since it 
will be based on wxWindows, which is supported by MacOS Classic (provided 
someone with CodeWarrior will compile it).

--Chris

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Martin Gruner wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> just in case you didn't already know:
> 
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php
> 
> tells us that KDE3 now runs on MacOS X as well.
> 
> Maybe one day BibleTime will be available for the mac as well? Would anyone 
> with access to a mac like to try and test this? This might eliminate the need 
> for another frontend for the mac, but you will know this better than I do.
> 
> Martin
>