MonoDevelop GTK+3 Port

Introduction

MonoDevelop is developed using the GTK+2 windowing toolkit, with some per-platform overrides to render features with OS-native components instead, for a more “native” look and feel.

We have a community project to port MonoDevelop to use GTK+3, the current stable version of GTK+. This will bring performance improvements across all platforms, and significant improvements to the experience on Linux (and Linux derivatives like Chrome OS)

Getting started

Obtain the latest in-progress work. Right now, this is in https://github.com/directhex/monodevelop.git, hackweek2 branch.

You will need GTK Sharp, and its dependencies, for your platform. Current development work is targeting GTK Sharp 2.99.3.

On Linux, your distribution likely already has this packaged.

On OSX, you will require Brew (https://brew.sh). Download this Brew formula, and install it with brew install ./gtk-sharp3.rb. You should also install several MonoDevelop dependencies, with brew install cmake gettext intltool libssh2. Finally, you’ll need to configure MonoDevelop to find all the disparate tools it needs, and to use the GNOME backend (work on porting the Mac backend) has not started yet: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2o_2/lib/pkgconfig/ PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.19.8.1/bin/ ./autogen.sh --enable-gnomeplatform --disable-macplatform

Building

Run make! It is not expected for the whole build to finish, yet (completing work on every single addin is a work in progress).

Running

Use make run. This should work well enough to draw the MonoDevelop welcome screen.