GUI library for D

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 04.04.2011 23:51, schrieb Matthias Pleh:
> Am 04.04.2011 23:34, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
>> Am 04.04.2011 23:27, schrieb Matthias Pleh:
>>> was: [GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian
>>>
> [snip]
>>>
>>> This were the requirments for the GUI library:
>>> - Corss-platform (Win/linux)
>>
>> Don't forget Mac OSX.
> I just listed the requirments in our company, but you're rigth. We must
> support at least the three main platforms Win/linux/OSX
> 
>> Also note that on Linux there are two widely used toolkits, GTK and Qt,
>> and that QT is better in emulating GTK than the other way round (you can
>> let GTK use the current QT theme or something, but it'll still use the
>> GTK filepicker etc. QT's GTK emulation is better and uses the real GTK
>> filepicker).
> that's true
> 
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> I don't know if wee need yet another GUI library.
> I have not said, that it must be create a completly new library.
> We just have to find out, what are the requirments for the D community,
> and how can we achieve that.
> Whe have mainly 4 options:
> - support an existing project and help to meet our requirments
> - fork an existing project and advance it to our requirments
> - port a library from another language and advance it, to meet better
>   the D coding style
> - create a new library (which also can be based on a older abandoned
>   project)
> 
>> Are you sure Qt and DWT aren't good enough?
> As I mentioned in my post, I couldn't assure the others. Not every
> decision-maker base his decisions on pure technical arguments, sometimes
> it's just his gut feeling or the cleaning lady's advice, who knows :)
> 
> °Matthias

Maybe your company could help the DWT or QtD guys?
Getting something stable out of that would most probably not take as
long as developing your own cross-platform GUI toolkit.
Furthermore many people are already familiar with SWT and Qt, so they
wouldn't have to learn another toolkit for D.

Cheers,
- Daniel