macOS Support

[SplittyDev]

Hey, it seems that macOS support was removed in 8ff13a4. Is there a specific reason for that?
Just curious, as I'm the guy who added support for macOS in the first place in February 2023.

[jszczerbinsky]

Hi,
It has been removed, because now the project uses GTK and GTK is not supported on my old version on MacOS and unfortunately I have no way to develop, test, or even compile MacOS version anymore.
I was trying to find someone, who would like to be in charge of developing and maintaining the MacOS version, but I couldn't find anyone. If You want to help again, Your contribution would be greately appreciated.

[bdmorin]

I'm cautiously interested, I'm not a macos developer, but I am a power user, and I know other languages. Do you think I could get this going with some copilot (or whatever) help? I don't understand the challenges you had when you were compiling.

[jszczerbinsky]

It's hard to say, really. The core of the application - wallpaper window has been already running successfully on macOS. MacOS support has been removed when configuration window was added, because I had only access to some old macOS version, that is not supported by GTK, so I couldn't even compile it on my own and I really didn't want to upload only partially-tested version as a release. That's why I decided to remove macOS support completely.

To make it work on macOS in the current version it would require few steps:

• Restore the code responsible for positioning wallpaper window on macOS, that has been removed
• Compiling should be similar to Linux one, but there may be some minor changes required in CMakeLists.txt
• Create a configuration for cPack to generate macOS installer (there was one, but since the project structure changed, it would require some adjustments)