The State of the GUI

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 08:13:38 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 25/10/2018 9:06 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> There is absolutely no reason that a D based non-native 
>> toolkit could not be used to mimic the native theme at a pixel 
>> level. WPF does it, so we *know* it can be done. Easy, no. 
>> Possible, absolutely. :)
>
> We can do better than just the visual attributes. Hook in the 
> accessibility API's of the platform and we'd be significantly 
> better off than libraries like nuklear or imgui. But first, we 
> have to decide to actually engineer a solution and not just 
> hack one together like dlangui.

People needs to work together, forget their little person, make 
concessions.
"Cool kids" have begun to build desktop apps using web 
technologies, that's imo impossible to accept. We need to stop 
being some stupid / classic asocial system programmers.

I'm part of the many who tried to build his own little GUI 
framework and finally gave up because a GUI framework requires 
many knowledge in many domain (i.e you want to to work on a GUI 
but you have to loose your time on learning how clipboard works 
on X...). It's time to move on. When you'll have finished the 
core (windowing, message loop) it will be time to build something 
serious on top. I think that something like the Lazarus widgetset 
system may work.

People just need to start working together. Talents are here but 
fragmented.