Kevin's completed the port to LinuxPPC and it's excellently stable under several LinuxPPC distributions. Another great example of what community developers bring to OpenOffice.org.
Don't forget that we're supporting DarwinPPC as well! The OS X team's Darwin port already in a few distributions like the GNU Darwin distribution. They also have screenshots of it running on Darwin, something that I've never seen in person!
bingo. this aqua patch is just built right on top of that version (OO638C). we haven't yet started the process of moving our build system, makefile, and source code patches to OOO_STABLE_1 yet. It's on our list.
What also could be nifty is that with some cleanup work to the patch it'll be possible to turn the Aqua LAF on and off at runtime and switch between Aqua or one of the themes available on the other U*ix platforms. The downloadable Darwin one already contains some switchable 'themes' accessed in that view settings panel, including Macintosh (platinum-ish controls) and OS/2.
Most of these are almost historical now, showing how the patch evolved over time with the various additions. Through them you can kinda see the process that started with buttons, then antialiased text, then radio buttons, then checkboxes, up to backgrounds.
We've been swamped with answering people's questions recently, but next we're trying to work on bevel buttons for the icon/palette buttons you can see at the bottom left of the sdraw window, getting only the default button of a dialog to draw in blue and have the others white (as per the Aqua guidelines), and work on 10.2 style focus rings instead of that awful rectangle around the label of the button has the keyboard focus, a remnant of the Win95ish controls that were previously there.
We also need to clean up the patch as well so it's not quite as much of a hack and won't break a build (right now it has to be built separately from a regular OOo build...
You can see the results of a vcl build probably (the files delivered lies) in some of those terminals in the screenshots along with warning messages from parts of the graphics layer that still need to be completed, e.g. fonts.
Yes, we will be working on retooling it to conform to Aqua. That's a major undertaking for us, though, and we'll need lots of help to design how we'll do it as well as execute it. It's easy to draw buttons in two days...to get it to be sheets, tabbed dialogs, drawers, etc. isn't:)
The app launches from the Terminal and is a child process and doesn't have the voodoo magic to put a name in the menubar. I suspect this will go away when we solve the problems with application packaging for OS X which is still a mess. Wanna help us out (hint hint)?
Photoshop is open since I needed something to convert TIFFs into JPEGs and create the thumbnails for the website:) A bit hypocritical I guess. I should've used GIMP.
The binaries are sometimes not downloadable because my server's being hammered from being on slashdot and several mac sites. Try reconnecting a few times and it may come up (they're actually 10 megs compressed, and dashboardbuddha is on a 10K/s upstream connection and already unhappy with the load:).
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Kevin's completed the port to LinuxPPC and it's excellently stable under several LinuxPPC distributions. Another great example of what community developers bring to OpenOffice.org.
Don't forget that we're supporting DarwinPPC as well! The OS X team's Darwin port already in a few distributions like the GNU Darwin distribution. They also have screenshots of it running on Darwin, something that I've never seen in person!
ed peterlin
bingo. this aqua patch is just built right on top of that version (OO638C). we haven't yet started the process of moving our build system, makefile, and source code patches to OOO_STABLE_1 yet. It's on our list.
What also could be nifty is that with some cleanup work to the patch it'll be possible to turn the Aqua LAF on and off at runtime and switch between Aqua or one of the themes available on the other U*ix platforms. The downloadable Darwin one already contains some switchable 'themes' accessed in that view settings panel, including Macintosh (platinum-ish controls) and OS/2.
ed peterlin
The desktop picture in the way back is britney spears on a tree swing.
ed peterlin
Anyone wanna mirror these for me? :)
Most of these are almost historical now, showing how the patch evolved over time with the various additions. Through them you can kinda see the process that started with buttons, then antialiased text, then radio buttons, then checkboxes, up to backgrounds.
We've been swamped with answering people's questions recently, but next we're trying to work on bevel buttons for the icon/palette buttons you can see at the bottom left of the sdraw window, getting only the default button of a dialog to draw in blue and have the others white (as per the Aqua guidelines), and work on 10.2 style focus rings instead of that awful rectangle around the label of the button has the keyboard focus, a remnant of the Win95ish controls that were previously there. We also need to clean up the patch as well so it's not quite as much of a hack and won't break a build (right now it has to be built separately from a regular OOo build... You can see the results of a vcl build probably (the files delivered lies) in some of those terminals in the screenshots along with warning messages from parts of the graphics layer that still need to be completed, e.g. fonts.
ed peterlin
Yes, we will be working on retooling it to conform to Aqua. That's a major undertaking for us, though, and we'll need lots of help to design how we'll do it as well as execute it. It's easy to draw buttons in two days...to get it to be sheets, tabbed dialogs, drawers, etc. isn't :)
The app launches from the Terminal and is a child process and doesn't have the voodoo magic to put a name in the menubar. I suspect this will go away when we solve the problems with application packaging for OS X which is still a mess. Wanna help us out (hint hint)?
:) A bit hypocritical I guess. I should've used GIMP.
:).
Photoshop is open since I needed something to convert TIFFs into JPEGs and create the thumbnails for the website
The binaries are sometimes not downloadable because my server's being hammered from being on slashdot and several mac sites. Try reconnecting a few times and it may come up (they're actually 10 megs compressed, and dashboardbuddha is on a 10K/s upstream connection and already unhappy with the load
regards,
ed peterlin