[TriLUG] OT: Mac OS X list?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:09, al johson wrote:
> Cool!!
> 
> Maybe you can answer the gnawing question several of my friends in the OSX
> community have. As you're no doubt aware at present to run anything other
> than non-GUI UNIX software from the Terminal on OSX, some version of
> X-windows has to be installed, which creates a situation where you would
> have TWO GUI's installed (the Mac's and X-Windows). Now the 64 thousand
> dollar question appears to be this: Can we ever expect Linux software which
> uses KDE or Gnome to install on an OSX machine without X-windows being
> installed sometime in the future??

Disclaimer: I don't know that much about the OSX system.  Ben would be
able to answer this much better. But, I do know X, so I imagine I have
a good idea about this...

Short answer: Not any time soon.

Long answer: Both Gnome and KDE are very dependent upon X.  Even if you
get a native version of QT or GTK (the underlying widget sets), you 
still have other dependencies on X that can't be resolved all that
easily.

However, there is an X server that lets you use X apps just like
native Aqua apps (don't remember the name right now, but it starts
with an O and sounds a bit like October?), if that's what you're 
after.

Tanner
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