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So I finally managed to get my GUI Flickr Uploadr to work on OS X. It was not easy installing ruby-gtk2 in that I had lots of dependency issues. The issues were mostly with atk, gdkpixpuf, and glib. At first, I tried installing GTK2 using Fink. It failed because of GCC issues with glib (I think), which I later figured was because of a problem with pkg-config. I ditched Fink, and used DarwinPorts. Things were good.

After that, I had GTK initialization issues, which was because I hadn’t exported DISPLAY (to 127.0.0.1:0; thanks, Gopal!).

I couldn’t use my old code as is because the Ruby-GTK2 bindings on my FreeBSD box is an older version. (I’ll put the code up sometime later. And maybe also try to document some poorly documented Ruby-GTK2 stuff like Gtk::TextView, Gtk::TextBuffer, etc.) So, it works, but not perfectly:

Yeah, it looks horrible, but then I&rsquo'm not going to play with it on OS X again—I just wanted it to work.

Oh, by the way, Google Talk is *love*!