D : Not for me anymore

[John Reimer]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:04:32 -0700, Jari-Matti Mäkelä  
<jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid> wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
>> As a GUI framework,
>> however, SWT seems comprehensive and powerful.  It's just not a
>> well-recognized or an easily learned solution.
>
> The only programs using SWT that I know of are Eclipse and Azureus.
> They're both slower than anything I've ever seen (including most of the
> Swing using programs). It takes a forever to start either of them,
> changing tabs/perspectives is just like watching a slide show and
> writing text has an average lag of 1-2 seconds. Maybe it's because I'm
> only running a 2.x GHz AMD with 1 GB of RAM and a KDE desktop, but IMHO
> apps on my old PC (Pentium 100, 32 of RAM, Win98/X11+Fluxbox) are way
> more responsive than any SWT app on the newer box.


Perhaps... but I don't find the Win32 DWT port that way at all.  It's  
quite snappy. :)
And my experiences with Eclipse are quite contrary to yours as well.

-JJR