Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 5/8/2014 4:51 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Am 08.05.2014 21:41, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>> (...)my trackpad's scrolling gestures
>> don't even fucking work on it (they work fine on nearly anything else).
>>
>
> To be fair, some time ago I've had the joy to try and properly support
> scrolling gestures properly for my UI framework and I wound up naming
> the window class of my windows "OperaWindowClass", because that triggers
> a special case path in the touchpad driver, which actually sends useful
> window messages. I didn't find another way to get useful data. The whole
> (Synaptics) driver is obviously nothing but a crapload of special case
> junk to make the most popular applications and controls work, because
> the people involved obviously don't manage to develop a standard API for
 > pixel perfect scrolling.

Hmm, that may be so. I've yet to find one piece of OEM software that 
isn't (at best) barely-functional garbage. And I just noticed it 
apparently doesn't work in Tk even with its native controls, bizarrely 
enough. I honestly never would have even imagined that this stuff would 
actually manage to fail on native controls. It just seemed obvious that 
if there was anything *at all* it would work with, it would be native 
controls. What a mess.

OTOH, as little respect as I have for OEM software, I wouldn't be 
surprised if their hand is somewhat forced. If they'd done it by 
providing an API, nobody would bother to use the API. The only right way 
would be to integrate with existing OS support, but if the OS doesn't 
already provide that (I wouldn't know whether it does), then nothing's 
going to get companies like MS, Apple or likely even Canonical to 
actually give enough of a rat's ass to pull attention away from their 
own internal politics and agendas. Can't let nicely working user-facing 
features get in the way of corporate agendas and red tape, can they? ;)