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[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

Jan Peters wrote:
> The whole discussion of User interfaces brings up the
> topic of Mac OS X. A port which mixes the cacao interfaces
> with the X11 main windows would be marvelous.

I am not quite sure how to parse this phrase. If you run X11 via Apple's 
X11.app, TeXmacs mixes quite nicely with the Aqua desktop (apart from a 
couple of bugs of this early beta version of X11.app which should soon 
be fixed). Both with X11.app and with the new XDarwin-4.3.0, one of the 
main problems of TeXmacs on MacOSX, namely its slowness, has mostly 
disappeared.

> As Mac Users are usually NOT Latex people AND
> still fed up with MS Word & equations, a more native
> port could broaden texmacs user base significantly...

I agree, it would be very nice if someone could do a native Aqua port. 
But I wouldn't hold my breath. Using the same kind of generalization as 
you do, I would say that Mac programmers capable of doing such a port 
are usually not open source people.

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Martin