[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Apr 4 06:23:16 PDT 2011


On 2011-04-04 01:58, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 04.04.2011 01:46, schrieb Jonathan M Davis:
>> On 2011-04-03 16:38, 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.
>>
>> If swing actually had a good-looking look and feel, it probably wouldn't be
>> that big a problem, but it's ugly. Still, for a lot of people, the fact that
>> something doesn't look native is a major problem.
>>
>> Regardless, SWT has a great solution to making the GUI look native and
>> generally is extremely well-designed as I understand it (though unfortunately,
>> it considers GTK to be native on Linux, and I hate the look of GTK).
>
> Maybe http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/swtqt/ could fix that
> for you? Don't know how stable and maintained that is, though.
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

That's interesting.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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