Re: Building wxt terminal for OS X

[Joe K. <jko...@co...>]

on 11/17/06 6:35 PM, Ethan Merritt at merritt@u.washington.edu wrote:

> On Friday 17 November 2006 04:12 pm, Joe Koski wrote:
>> The appearance of X11 graphics, when compared to Mac graphics
>> is inferior, in my (Mac user) opinion, anyway.
>=20
> I think you are missing the point, or I am, or we're talking past
> each other.
>=20
> The appearance of x11 graphics is vastly inferior to the appearance
> of the wxt/cairo/pango graphics also.  That's why we are pushing
> the wxt terminal.  Unless I am fundamentally misunderstanding
> something, the visual effect of using the wxt terminal is going to
> be the same no matter which path you take to get it running on
> the Mac.
>=20
> Ethan (not a Mac user)

Ethan, Timoth=E9e, Per, et al,

OK, give me a bit of time, and I will try to follow Timoth=E9e's instructions
on my G5 Mac to see what happens. Most of the steps that he suggests are
steps that I've already done anyway. Yes, I think the messages are flying
too fast here, but that's good, because maybe we'll get somewhere. If my
results are good, then the results on an Intel Mac should also be good.

I'll need to do some man page review and study. I like to know what I'm
doing, not just following instructions. Although I have used UNIX for about
15 years in various versions, I'm mostly a user, not a developer.

If this is stopping the show on the issue of gnuplot-4.3, I would proceed
because this is an extra, not a necessity, for gnuplot use on a Mac. Per's
AquaTerm has us covered in the interim.

Joe
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