[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-04 01:38, dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcaedes at gmail.com)'s article
>> 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.
>
> IDK why people are bothered so much by this.  I hate Swing only because it's so
> sluggish-feeling, but GTK on Windows doesn't bother me even though it looks
> non-native.  Similarly, I doubt DFL on Linux would bother me if I used Linux as my
> desktop OS.
>
>> 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.
>
> My only gripe with DWT is, AFAIK, it doesn't work for D2 yet and I've got too much
> other stuff on my plate to fix this myself.

I was planing to give this a proper announcement when the linux version 
is working as well but anyway: DWT works with D2 on Windows.

http://hg.dsource.org/projects/dwt2

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg