dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Christopher Wright" <dhasenan at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hbcg2t$20ih$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 10/17/09 00:23, 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.
>>
>> It depends on what you're looking at. The SWT philosophy is something 
>> like this: Use controls that are available as native controls on as many 
>> platforms as possible. For example, if a control is available as native 
>> on 3 out of 4 platforms, use the native on the 3 platforms and emulate it 
>> on the fourth. If a control is only native on 1 out of 4 platforms don't 
>> include it in SWT. SWT also has some custom (non-native) controls like 
>> the tabs used by Eclipse.
>
> And the tabs are everywhere, and no attempt was made to make them look 
> native to any platform.

And they take up an *enormous* amount of space. I can't actually use them 
and see their labels at the same time.