I know the answer to this question really, but I want to ask it just in case....
I have agreed to develop an application to run on an Apple Mac (I owe this guy a big big favour). I do not own an Apple Mac. I have been reading the introductory stuff on the Apple Developer web site and see that the core of the OS is BSD. However the GUI is something else on top and proprietary. It seems to me that my cheapest option is to buy a mini mac and get on with it
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I don't suppose there is any hope of KDE running on a MAC or being able to port the interface to a MAc? The code is not a problem can do a terminal version in GCC but end user and terminal, I don't think so.
kde4 will run on a mac.
Not the interface (e.g. not the desktop, windowmanager, panel etc), but the applications (e.g. kmail, kopete, amarok, koffice, etc).
kde gives you single source compatibility, so if you program something for kde4, in theory you can compile it to run on linux, unix, windows and macos.
Help mee om KDE 3.5.5 in het Nederlands te vertalen
Thanks for that, it was as I thought. Will write the code in C++ with GCC and test against the data supplied then worry about the glitzy interface as step 2. This seems possible reading the introductory stuff on the Apple developer site.