UIKit highly depends on Core Animation, and, from what I gathered, so does
Chameleon. As far as I can see, GNUstep doesn't mention Core Animation
anywhere to be supported.

Without Core Animation, I don't think there's much point in looking at
Chameleon. What one can do, however, is implement basic UIKit-like APIs
without relying on Core Animation. More advanced apps that use tons of
animations and dig deeply behind the scenes of the topmost APIs would
probably break horribly, but just as with anything else, simplest apps could
be made to work without problems.

Or, GNUstep could receive a Core Animation treatment to make things more
compatible. I haven't used CA except in the form exposed by UIKit, so I'd
have to step back and let someone else comment on feasibility of this.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 19:13, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I just came across a new project Chameleon (BSD-style license)
>
>        http://chameleonproject.org/
>
> which apparently places a bridging layer on top of AppKit to provide
> the UIKit API.
>
> I have not looked into any details yet but if it works on a Mac it
> *might* work on GNUstep without too much additions (most likely
> we need a lot of Core Graphics stuff because UIKit Apps use them heavily).
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Nikolaus
>
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Regards,

Ivan Vučica
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