dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 10/17/09 10:31, Eric Suen wrote:
> "Christopher Wright" wrote
>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 10/16/09 12:58, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>>> GtkD supports Glade.
>>>
>>> Yes, but GtkD doesn't use native controls.
>>
>> A minor point, I think. Eclipse doesn't look very native and has
>> widespread acceptance.
>
> SWT wrap native controls, and Eclipse is build on SWT, but for an
> application
> like Eclipse, use system provide native controls is no enough, you have to
> write some custom control. Here is the problem, Java developers just unable
> to
> write good looking GUI components or applications using any library, neither
> Swing nor SWT. for examples, Swing is really powerful GUI frameworks, Java2D
> is quite powerful, and Swing is very flexible, but most Swing applications
> are
> really ugly.

I think Azureus looks quite native and if they haven't changed anything 
they're using SWT.

> Eclipse doesn't look very native because they using ugly tab for layout, you
> can change that by provide your owner theme. more than 99% controls in
> Eclipse
> are native controls...
>
> There is the link of custom theme for Eclipse:
>
> http://www.agpad.com/images/ide_m.png
>
> Eric
>
>