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MacGIMP: open-source image editing app

updated 07:20 am EDT, Mon June 4, 2001

 
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Mat Caughron writes about a development update to the open-source graphics application, MacGIMP, now "runs stably and very quickly in the X Windows environment under a variety of attractive windows managers. GIMP is an open-source program which has many of Photoshop's features...Unix and Linux users will also be pleased to note that rootless X is now also quite stable."


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    Fine and dandy, but...

    I do not want X11 on my box. I don't need it nor do I want it. GiMP is open source GPL people. If GiMP was really wanted on the Mac, I'm sure someone with the knowledge of the machines language would modify it to talk to Aqua.

    I seriously doubt this will ever happen however since Aqua is not GPL. With that, GiMP will never have a very big home on the Mac.

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    GTK

    What you don't understand is that GTK, the toolkit/GUI widget set that is used for many modern X11 applications can be ported to an OS fairly easily. The architecture works something like this:

    GTK---+
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    V V
    GDK--GLIB
    | |
    V V
    Xlib ANSI C

    So, GLIB, which has many datastructure and type primatives that are used throughout GDK and GTK, should be platform independant and just provides some wrappers to types and useful functions/structures. GDK is a wrapper set for Xlibs, and GTK should only rely on GDK for drawing. If GDK could be ported to use the Aqua API, it should run natively on OSX and use the aqua widgets.

    The GDK Win32 port does this for the Gimp that runs on Windows. I don't see any reason that this can't be done. And GIMP would not be the only application that would be easily portable to OSX, then...

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    Some XWindows are 86

    Some XWindows applications though are precompiled for running on Intel compatible systems. Most notably Arc Info. If someone can port Arc Info to the Mac, I'd be one real happy person.

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    You can't "port" binar

    Of course I didn't mean you could port closed-source software to OSX. You cannot easily make binaries compiled for one platform run on another platform; that why they charge money for things like VMWare =) ! "Porting" means modifying the source code for an application to be compilable and runnable on a different platform than it currently runs on.

    Anyways, what I meant was that open-source software that uses GTK+ would run with Aqua look & feel, and be easier to deal with (in that you wouldn't have to install X11).

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    X11 on Mac is Good

    Anything that enlarges teh user-base of Mac OSX is good
    Period. You no likey Gimp on OSX, you no usey Gimp on OSX. Run it on a Amiga for all I can. Go troll somewhere else.

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