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[Adam Wilson]

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:44:17 -0800, Gour <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:59:45 -0800
> Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> Why not you lead the effort?
>
> Lack of skills: both D and with GUI toolkits...let's hope someone more
> capable will chime in.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
>

Gour, I'd love to talk to you more about GUI's. I am new to D, but I have  
spent years working with GUI toolkits and studying their construction. My  
company would like to move to D in the future but, among other things, the  
lack of a first class GUI toolkit makes that a non-starter at the moment.  
If such a thing existed my company would be very willing to jump ship. And  
I have permission to use some limited company resources, mostly just web  
hosting for the project right now, but ability to expand that latter if  
the project shows progress.

I would also be up for leading the project, but a project of this size  
would need lots of contributors. And there still needs to be serious  
discussions about how to design such a project. Personally, my UI design  
background tends away from traditional style toolkits like wxD and DWT,  
and as such I would probably want to take the project in a different  
direction than those. For example, all of our software at work is built on  
WPF and I can say that I completely believe that WPF style UI toolkits are  
the way of the future. Besides, why cover the same ground that those two  
projects are already covering? I could list all the pro's and con's that  
we've discovered in actual usage of WPF but I don't want to needlessly  
clutter up this thread which has little to do with UI. :-)

You can find me on IRC as LightBender and the email account I list here is  
actively monitored.

-- 
Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/