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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: cymon on 24 December 2005, 05:53

Title: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: cymon on 24 December 2005, 05:53

http://img447.imageshack.us/img447/3681/picture21sk.png

Thanks to the Darwine project.

This is the third version I've used, and they get more functionality each time. First time, it didn't even open, second time, it crashed loading fonts, third time, it works great. Note, this one will only run PowerPC binaries, if you have any WinTel binaries they must be recompiled with WineLib, which can be obtained using the SDK. I had issues with the SDK installer, but used Pacifist (http://www.charlessoft.com) to install it manually. Just extract the stuff with /usr and /Library prefix.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: WMD on 24 December 2005, 08:11

It looks like ass.  Of course, one would expect that...but this is truly ugly.  I'd rather use the Minesweeper Dashboard widget.

PS: Your dock hurts my eyes. :p

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: hm_murdock on 24 December 2005, 17:24

It is pretty ugly, since it's Win9x looking stuff on OS X. It looks like running Gaim on OS X...

BTW, if you install the font "Marlett", you'll get all the Windows symbols, including the caption bar buttons.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: cymon on 24 December 2005, 18:18

They're working on a Quartz driver, good thing because the whole "Win95 on X11" is horrible. Now to go run some open source windows stuff.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 24 December 2005, 18:23

Bah, I've seen worse, I prefer this to luna.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: worker201 on 26 December 2005, 02:32

Quote from: hm_murdock

It is pretty ugly, since it's Win9x looking stuff on OS X. It looks like running Gaim on OS X...

What's wrong with that?  I personally think gtk2 looks very cool in OSX.  I have Gimp installed, and it runs through Apple X11, and it looks bad ass.  The reason I mention this is that gaim is gtk too, unless you tried to run a Windows port.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: cymon on 26 December 2005, 03:39

Yeah but the GTK+ runtime is on Windows too, so it probably just runs that.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: Orethrius on 27 December 2005, 00:47

Quote from: worker201

What's wrong with that?  I personally think gtk2 looks very cool in OSX.  I have Gimp installed, and it runs through Apple X11, and it looks bad ass.  The reason I mention this is that gaim is gtk too, unless you tried to run a Windows port.

 Clarification from a mixed-breed sysop: winGaim uses GTK, too... :cool:

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 27 December 2005, 16:04

Cant you alter the theme on Windows GTK+?

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: cymon on 27 December 2005, 18:35

No.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: Orethrius on 27 December 2005, 22:48

Quote from: cymon

No.

 That's not entirely accurate - it's possible, but it involves running the installer each time you want to change the Gaim theme.  Why would I want to go through that for a skin?

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: cymon on 27 December 2005, 23:21

Who cares about the skin? I really don't give a damn how Firefox looks, as long as it works.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: piratePenguin on 27 December 2005, 23:37

Quote from: cymon

I really don't give a damn how Firefox looks, as long as it works.

Or just use Camino (http://www.caminobrowser.org/).
My brother uses Firefox on his Mac, I must try Camino on it some day. It looks nice.

EDIT: Using it now. It's alright.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: Orethrius on 28 December 2005, 17:39

Quote from: cymon

Who cares about the skin? I really don't give a damn how Firefox looks, as long as it works.

 Oh wow, I was following the whole "Gaim" thread, not the "DarWINE" thread.
Sorry for the confusion.  ;)

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: worker201 on 30 December 2005, 02:15

I just loaded this, failed to work at all.  Even the pre-built sample stuff they give you failed - it kept looking for libraries in /tmp, which is not where they are.

Title: Re: The pwnage of Microsoft.
Post by: cymon on 30 December 2005, 19:57

It's not really reliable. This is the first version that I've used that actually works. Sometimes reinstalling it works.

Mine keeps bitching about not having FreeType fonts loaded here, but the XCode project for FreeType is some old crap that doesn't work with 2.0, and it doesn't compile anyway.