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[Russel Winder <russel.winder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 18:58 +0100, Ian wrote:
> Jean-Francois Roy made an interesting comment regarding native app GUI
> support for Bazaar. While I agree native options are important, I
> still feel that getting a cross-platform solution working would also
> be very beneficial for numerous people who work in mixed environments.
> Additionally, bzr-explorer seems much more mature than the other
> options we have *today*. Yet, unless you are willing to go through the
> compilation issues of hand building pyQT then an OS X user will not be
> able to use such a cross-platform UI. There is a bug on this, but no
> package with the dependencies needed for bazaar-explorer have been
> made, and this seems a great shame.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/349130
> 
> Has anyone had experience of building pyQT, and how could it be
> integrated into an installer for Leopard and Snow Leopard users?

I suspect that trying to impose the standard Gnome/KDE/Windows GUI style
on a Mac OS X application will fail.  The Mac OS X GUI style really
needs to be followed by a Mac OS X GUI application.  Cross platform
consistency of the user model is critical, but so is being consistent
with the idiosyncratic Mac OS menu bar structure.

Doesn't the mac-qt package from MacPorts download and install for native
use the Qt library?

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