Inkscape and GIMP will look great without X11 on Mac OS X

posted 11:43PM Jan 07, 2008 with tags gimp inkscape leopard macosx macports quartz x11 by Lars Trieloff

http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/lars/resource/gimp-leopard-no-x11.png

It is great to see the progress of the GTK+ on Mac OS X project. I have been able to build a version of Inkscape (it's the best) and the GIMP (I am more into vector graphics, but GIMP is good for pixel pushing) using Macports and lots of friendly help from the Wilber Loves Apple Community that does not need X11.

It is not really polished yet, for example GIMP uses the Mac OS X toolbar properly, whereas Inkscape has the default GTK toolbar, some keys are always interpreted as shortcuts, but it looks very good for a start and feels more natural than both applications under X11.

In order to get the look and feel right, I installed the Mac4Lin (yes, this means making Linux look like Mac OS X, oh irony) GTK theme and manually changed the default fonts using this tip: 

style "mac-font" {
  font_name = "Lucida Grande 13"
}
class "*" style "mac-font"