Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz

Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by TheCoreh on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:40PM (#3607296)

I think it's a good move from Apple's part.

It's not uncommon for users that rely on X11 support to update to the latest XQuartz release by themselves, anyway. Perhaps this will even bring more attention to the project, which is always good.

It's also one less thing for them to worry about, since they're moving to a faster release cycle.

Now, IMO, most people that need XQuartz need it to run GTK apps, like the GIMP. Is there a technical reason why GTK doesn't support OS X natively? Or is it only because noone ever did it, really? Perhaps now that can also happen?

It would be really nice to have GTK apps using the menu bar and displaying native OS X widgets.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by bri3d on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:42PM (#3607307)

http://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php

There's been a Quartz backend for GTK+ for quite some time. Working GIMP builds for native OSX have been available since 2011, and for most projects it's just a matter of finicking with the build system until it works.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by _delirium on Saturday February 18, 2012 @05:15PM (#3607897)

Huh, I guess that'd change the question to one of: why doesn't MacPorts ship a native gimp?

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by ernesth on Sunday February 19, 2012 @03:15AM (#3608933)

Macports does ship a non x11 gimp. It is the quartz variant.

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Re:Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support t... by simcop2387 on Saturday February 18, 2012 @01:44PM (#3607315)

Actually GTK does have a Quartz backend. It's just likely that the programs compiled aren't using it.

http://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php

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