The State of the GUI

Adam Wilson flyboynw at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 09:45:56 UTC 2018


On 10/25/18 2:14 AM, Basile B. wrote:
> 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.

+1

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