[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-04 01:14, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 04.04.2011 01:11, schrieb dsimcha:
>> == Quote from Matthias Pleh (matthias at none.net)'s article
>>> On 2011-04-03 21:05, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> * DFL -> windows only, a way too .Net-like, is currently not very
>>> active (abandoned?)
>>
>> Not abandoned, just updated very sparsely. The DFL API is IMHO much
>> easier to use
>> than GtkD, which is why I wrote the first version of my Plot2kill lib
>> for it
>> before I ran into limitations I couldn't get around. (These were
>> mainly lack of
>> support for non-Windows OS's and lack of builtin vector graphics
>> support a la
>> GTK-Cairo.)
>>
>> I wonder how hard it would be to port DFL to Linux using Winelib.
>> Wine's gotten
>> pretty good lately, and the whole point of Winelib is to compile code
>> that calls
>> the Windows API on Linux. (Wine is for running Windows **binaries**,
>> but it has a
>> companion library, Winelib, for **compiling** Windows API code to
>> native Linux
>> binaries.)
>
> May be possible, but would probably look crappy - just like windows
> applications in wine look crappy (as long as you don't have a win2k like
> theme for GTK/QT so all your applications look like windows
> applications..).
> This may be acceptable to port or emulate windows applications, but not
> for developing new cross-platform applications.
>
> SWT looks great (==native) on Windows and Linux/GTK (probably also
> OSX?), so why not push DWT? Don't know what programming for it is like,
> though.

I think the SWT API is really nice. The Mac OS X port is still in 
progress. Later versions of SWT looks more native on osx, sheets and 
native toolbars.

> Cheers,
> - Daniel


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg