> On Dec 26, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Brecht Machiels <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 2014-12-26 22:39:51 +0000, John Ralls said: >> Another thought occurred to me: You said that setting >> gtk-key-theme-name=“Mac” in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 doesn’t work in the (rather >> ancient) Gtk+ built by Homebrew. Maybe there’s a message there, that >> Homebrew tampers with the gtk source in a misguided effort to provide the >> functionality in a different way. > > You say "rather ancient". To be honest, I'm at a bit of a loss trying to > understand Gtk+ versioning. I was under the impression 2.24 was the last Gtk+ > 2 version. Homebrew offers 2.24.25, which is the last 2.24 version, AFAICS. > But now I see the Gtk+ FTP also has 2.9x folders, but the dates on those > source archives are much older.
2.24.25 is indeed the latest release of Gtk+-2.24, which is the terminal minor release of Gtk+-2. However, your earlier message mentioned /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+-quartz/2.24.11/share/themes/Mac/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc. 2.24.11 was released in July 2012, which is “fairly ancient”; however, the last release of PyGtk was in April 2011, so perhaps in your case it makes sense to use the older Gtk release. 24 > 9. > > As for Homebrew tampering with the Gtk source, there's no patches being > applied in any case: > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gtk%2B.rb > > What *is* the recommended way for running Gtk+ 2 and PyGtk on Mac, as there > seem to be no Mac binaries provided on the Gtk+ site? I tried a packaged > PyGTK (including a Gtk+ 2.24) before, but that was very unstable running Zim > (crashes on resizing windows, for example). Recommended by whom? I recommend using jhbuild, which is the official Gnome build tool, along with the gtk-osx package which I maintain. It’s the environment under which gtk-mac-integration is maintained. No doubt the Homebrew folks recommend that you use Homebrew, the MacPorts folks recommend MacPorts, the Fink folks recommend Fink, and so on. Mixing build systems is likely to cause problems because the default configurations aren’t guaranteed to be compatible. MacPorts, Fink, and Homebrew all pollute the environment so that even having more than one of them on a system is also likely to cause trouble because the linker can get misled into getting the wrong library. Note that those are recommendations for building. There are no packaged binaries because no one is willing to commit to making them at every release. You’ll notice that the Windows binaries on the site are also rather old. That’s because the guy who used to build them regularly moved on and no one has been willing to take his place on an ongoing basis. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ Gtk-osx-users-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-osx-users-list
