Re: Cross Platform GNUStep GUI with Native Look-And-Feel

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

aditya siram wrote:
> Thank you all for the information. Is there currently an open-source
> application created with GnuStep that runs with a native look-and-feel
> on Windows, Linux and Mac? It would be nice if there were some
> reference point.
>    
First of all: Linux doesn't have a native look-and-feel at all... For 
me, Linux or BSD means GNUstep. Many people use GNOME and this is why 
there is a GTK/Gnome theme in the works, but using GNUstep on Linux is 
100% native.

Said that, I work on several applications which run both on GNUstep and 
on Mac natively compiled on both. Some of them were even GNUstep 
applications ported from GNUstep to Mac!
Several of them work on Windows too, also with the native windows theme, 
but not all (or not yet because I didn't port them: mingw doesn't 
provide a full POSIX environment, so adjustment to the code may be 
necessary).

For a reference and many Screenshots check out my own blog, 
http://multixden.blogspot.com/ and the GNUstep Application Project.

My first Cocoa+GNUstep application was and still is PRICE, 
http://price.sf.net : since release 0.2 it has been designed to work on 
both evnironments.

So do LaternaMagica, FTP, Vespucci, DataBasin, Graphos and many others.

Graphos started on GNUstep and has been perfectly ported, you may check 
some screenshots here:
http://gap.nongnu.org/graphos/index.html#screenshots

Grr, the RSS reader, was a GNUstep app ported too:
here on GNUstep:
http://gap.nongnu.org/grr/index.html

and here natively on windows with one of the first working native theme 
bundles:
http://multixden.blogspot.com/2010/02/grr-working-on-windows.html

You may notice the native window decorations and the native menus. I 
don't have a Mac screenshot at hand, but it works and I also provide a 
binary.

The Game GShisen runs everywhere too:
Check yourself here:
http://gap.nongnu.org/gshisen/index.html

So you see, it has been done before, it works and there are many degrees 
of freedom and customization.

Cheers.
   Riccardo