[rkward-users] version for MAC OS?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 9, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Thank you both for your GUIs.
> I understand that, from a Mac perspective, a native
> GUI is better and I'm impressed by the difference between
> the default GUI in Mac and in Win: the R GUI for Mac is much better.
> But I'm looking for a common GUI (linux,win,mac) to make
> my life easier at teaching.


JGR was created exactly for that reason (students complaining that the Windows GUI on their computers is different form the Macs we used for teaching) - it's cross-platform and has the same UI on all platforms so students don't get confused.

Cheers,
Simon


> On this regard, I've found RKward
> very useful (it's not only a GUI but includes some elementary
> functions in the menu, which helps some students) and wish have it for all 3 OS. I'm working myself
> mostly under ubuntu, 80% of students use win, 15% Mac and 5% linux.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Agus
> 
> 
> Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
>> On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 15:20 , Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>>>> Creating a native version for Mac OS should not be too hard, I
>>>>> believe,
>>> If RKWard is truly a KDE app then to the contrary. KDE is a very heavy
>>> infrastructure. There seem to be some effort of porting it to Macs but
>>> since it's so heavy your can't easily deploy an application. But
>>> again, I really don't know much about RKWard -- if it can be made to
>>> rely only on Qt then the story is entirely different, of course.
>> I was talking about what needs to be done in RKWard itself. There, we have some platform-specific code (for X11 and Windows, so far) to detect and "swallow" the R screen graphics device windows. That's basically the one area that needs porting. Anyway, this is getting quite technical, so if you would like to continue, here, please take the discussion to rkward-devel, instead of rkward-users.
>> RKWard does rely on KDE, and I wouldn't claim porting KDE is "not too hard", but others have already done that (http://mac.kde.org). Can't comment on the quality of that port, and how hard or easy it is to install.
>> Regards
>> Thomas
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