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There are some problems.
* Help does not work (Double clicking Help or FAQ etc on an image in the Help menu does nothing).* media reference editor doen'Enter' or 'return' does not act as OK for closing windows (t bring up an external viewer to show the button has picture full size. In fact, there seems to be pressed with the mouse)no way to do this from within gramps on Mac. However Esc does work * Little popup yellow help notices notices which are supposed to exit from appear when you hover over a button do appear, but do so even when the gramps windowisn't in focus and there's a window from another application covering it up.* The browser This may apply just to windows like the person editor and email links under not to the help menu do nothingmain original gramps window.
* It is not possible to start Gramps by double clicking on a Mac OS icon, nor by double clicking on a Gramps database that is associated with the application. (It should be possible to create an installation that allows this, just as it is available for OpenOffice).
* The PdfDoc.py plugin cannot be installed because ReportLab is not installed.
* Spell checking does not work (on starting Gramps, an error warning "Spelling checker is not installed" appears on the xterm). The python "bindings for [GNOME print and spell checking] are probably in fink's gnome-python2-desktop-py24 and gnome-python2-extras-py24 packages. Or would be, if fink had them at all, which we don't. They are only viable for for newer versions of gnome itself than fink presently has, or have other dependencies that are not yet satisfiable within fink. We're working on it".
* All ODF (ODT) output failed with a "Could not create file" error on an Gramps installed via Macports as described above, on a 'virgin' Mac. Benny Malengier forwarded the suggestion from guylinton that <code>zlib</code> should be installed: with <code> sudo port install py25-zlib </code> all ODT output jumped into action.
In the past the following have been noted on Mac systems, but they worked fine when I tried them:
* Help does not work (clicking Help or FAQ etc on the Help menu does nothing).
* 'Enter' or 'return' does not act as OK for closing windows (the button has to be pressed with the mouse). However Esc does work to exit from the window.
* The browser and email links under the help menu do nothing.
==Starting Gramps using X11==
Once you have successfully installed gramps using MacPorts, you will need to make a note of where the executable is. You can do this in your terminal, by typing "which gramps" (no quotes, of course). You should make a note of this and then start X11 from the Applications folder (in my case from within the Utilities folder). Once you have an X terminal you can type the command, in my case "/opt/local/bin/gramps". If /opt/local/bin is in the PATH for X11, then you should just be able to type "gramps".
