standardization of D

Pragma ericanderton at yahoo.removeme.com
Thu Apr 5 09:47:22 PDT 2007


Clay Smith wrote:
> Here are my thoughts:
[snip]
> 3) Misuse of manpower:
> 
> In theory, it would be _nice_ if all the GUI dudes worked on the same 
> GUI, and all the standard library dudes worked on the same library. 
> Maybe there can be some way to encourage this.

Agreed.  We need a collaborative effort on the same scale as (or larger than) Tango for a good GUI lib for D.

If you look at the GUI matrix on the Wiki, the situation is pretty gruesome.  Each lib has some of the picture: native 
widget support, cross-platform, release status, wraps a well-known library, etc.  But none have the complete picture.

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?AvailableGuiLibraries

In a perfect world, we'd have a complete GL-based library (for portability and performance) that has common widgets that 
look good, has easy to use layout engines, meshes perfectly with the host desktop (clipboard, D&D, etc), and provides an 
API that is ideal for hacking together new controls.

- EricAnderton at yahoo



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