A Little Thing - They Never Fail...

OK - this is honestly one I feel bad about because I am a supporter of opensource, and have the greatest respect for the community that, like myself, devotes time & energy insuring there is good free software out there for the public to use without a corporate yoke of licensing fees, giving away your children or your freedom, or any of the other inherently dirty dealings of corporations for profit. The GIMP is an amazing accomplishment - a Graphic Image Manipulation Program written by charitable contributors and maintained by an open community. GIMP rocks - it does a lot of things we have come to know and expect in fancy graphics manipulation really well, and the OSX port is not shabby at all. It is not rewritten in the native mac interface. Rather, it runs under X11 for OSX.
Notwithstanding, here is a little curiosity. The OSX desktop provides an 'Appearance' setting in System Preferences. This amounts to color choices for the basic graphical metaphor. The default is a theme called Aqua, which provides watery aquamarine tones for scroll bars, title-bars, and window-management tool icons (such as minimize, maximize, & close, list-box sliders, & the like). In OSX 10.5, which is what is installed on my workhorse at the moment, I have selected 'graphite' - nice neutral gray everything, but when I run the GIMP, all it's window controls appear in aqua, like this:

Oops! - As you can see, the control buttons on the window right below appear in Graphite, yet the GIMP controls, in the upper half of the image, are stuck in Aqua.

Not a big deal - but it is a 'bug du jour'...