minwin

[Bill Baxter]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:

> Some platforms don't have one native look-and-feel. On one of my Linux
> desktops I have quite equal amount of programs written in 7 different
> toolkits: fltk, gtk+ 1 and 2, qt, motif, swing and custom toolkits (e.g.
> blender). Then, of course there are also those ugly plain X apps, but
> does anyone really use them. 

xfig!!

> Luckily the fltk & gtk+ 1 -programs are
> some day "upgrading" their toolkits to some more common one. For example
> XMMS is being replaced by BMP and Audacious.
> 
> Then there are those less common desktop environments that have pretty
> minimalistic native toolkits.
> 
> I just hope that one day someone makes a general purpose toolkit for all
> the environments and for all kinds of users. And with the help of
> metaprogramming it just might be possible to create that without too
> much bloat. A great potential killer app for D. :)

Software that sets out with the goal of being the right tool for 
everybody is usually delivered late (if at all), and ends up satisfying 
nobody.

--bb