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[Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Russel" == Russel Winder <russel.winder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> 
    >> Has anyone had experience of building pyQT, and how could it be
    >> integrated into an installer for Leopard and Snow Leopard users?

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

I agree. Gimp is such an example and it still requires X11 under
Snow Leopard...

Yet, I think it's better to start with a "bad" GUI than no GUI.

     Vincent