Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl-quartz, take 3

On 30-03-2013, at 17:44, Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Berend Hasselman wrote: >> >>> It's a significant achievement to have come so far. >>> >>> It would be really nice if the mac integration could be pushed further. >>> With the keyboard control that I have mentioned in previous posts. It looks >>> like you have done all that is possible so maybe some advice from gtk-osx >>> people can shed some light on how to proceed. >> >> IMHO setting the look and feel of the Mac version "right" would warrant by >> itself a new release, considering the growing popularity of the platform (OSX >> accounts for about 1/6 of downloads currently, with much higher peaks in some >> countries like the US or France). > > I agree, but there's still some way to go; and getting the > remaining stuff right will probably have to involve fixes in > the gtk-mac-integration library, which we're relying upon for > the top-of-screen menu functionality. Recently a completely native Quartz build of Gimp 2.8.4 was released (http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/Eintrage/2013/3/21_GIMP_2.8.4_release...). It uses a Mac version of GTK. It has the menu at the top of the screen and lots of Mac keyboard shortcuts. I tested if Control+F2 would activate the application's menu. No. I have reported this to the developer and received the reply "Hhmm, you're right. The keyboard shortcut does not work, so sadly, that's one more drawback of a native build. Sorry. I'll try to find a solution for this issue…" First letter navigation in the menu works. It would seem a good idea to keep in touch with the developer of the Mac native Gimp to see if she is able to find a solution. The email address is on the support page of the site (http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Support.html) in obfuscated form.