On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <you...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:27 PM, BH <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <you...@lyx.org> wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > My employer just got me a brand new MacBook Pro. I am not impressed so >> far >> > by MacOS so called legendary user friendlyness but I am trying to get >> used >> > to it right now. >> > Anyway, I need to install development stuff. I've downloaded latest >> XCode >> > and Qt SDK. Now I need to know if I'd better use fink or MacPort (or >> > something else?) for package... >> > More generally, Bennett, Stefan, any advice? >> > Thanks in advance, >> >> I (and Stephan I believe) use MacPorts, though fink should work fine >> as well. > > > Thanks to you > Sorry, sent too fast... not yet confortable with the makbook keyboard... So thanks to you and Rob, I'll have a go with MacPorts then. > I have been using cmake (with the precompiled Qt package), > though I haven't used cmake to generate an XCode project. Stephan uses > autotools (with self-compiled Qt?). > I'll go the cmake plus QtCreator. Just as in Linux. > > Mac user friendliness is an acquired taste. > Just as Windows or any other desktop then :-) But it seems that MacOS wants to impose me a way of working and I really don't like it. I find it particularly irritating that I cannot maximize all windows the same way. Safari for example only maximizes vertically. I hope LyX is not doing the same. Also, the only way to resize a window seems to be the grip control on the bottom right... > > By the way, you might find BibDesk and Skim useful: > > http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ > http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ > > Of course, let us know if you run into any problems. > Thanks. Abdel.
