A couple of things happened yesterday that made the AROS community very happy.
One, is the bounty project for the GTK-MUI wrapper was finished by Oliver 'o1i' Brunner. Development on this project will continue now in AROS. This will make it easier to port GTK code over to AROS. There is a lot of software using GTK out there. For example, a couple of popular projects that are using GTK are The Gimp and the Gnome Desktop Environment. If you follow one of the links I provided for GTK, you will see that it is a toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Things like gadgets on windows, selectors, slide bars, etc. This will allow the shell of a program to be ported. The inner workings of the program will still need to be ported some other way when trying to port an application over to AROS. But this really speeds up the process by being able to handle the GTK part of the software.
The other thing that happened yesterday was the start of some new window borders for AROS. Georg started work on this and it is looking great so far. I'll keep you posted.
posted by Paul J. Beel at 8:48 AM
2 Comments:
You're slightly mistaken. The project (as defined by the bounty objectives) is not finished. He has simply ported what he has done so far to AROS; having earlier developed in AmigaOS.
The current status can be found on his website. As of writing it states that 53% of the functions required by the bounty are completed.
1:23 PM
Thanks for clarifying that Adam. When I post something, I always hope you guys will correct me, if my information is incorrect. :)
1:28 PM
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