[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/4/11 3:55 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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

You may want to post that to reddit.

Andrei