[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-04 01:50, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 04.04.2011 01:38, schrieb dsimcha:
>> == Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcaedes at gmail.com)'s article
>>> May be possible, but would probably look crappy - just like windows
>>> applications in wine look crappy (as long as you don't have a win2k like
>>> theme for GTK/QT so all your applications look like windows applications..).
>>> This may be acceptable to port or emulate windows applications, but not
>>> for developing new cross-platform applications.
>>
>> IDK why people are bothered so much by this.  I hate Swing only because it's so
>> sluggish-feeling, but GTK on Windows doesn't bother me even though it looks
>> non-native.  Similarly, I doubt DFL on Linux would bother me if I used Linux as my
>> desktop OS.
>>
>>> SWT looks great (==native) on Windows and Linux/GTK (probably also
>>> OSX?), so why not push DWT? Don't know what programming for it is like,
>>> though.
>>
>> My only gripe with DWT is, AFAIK, it doesn't work for D2 yet and I've got too much
>> other stuff on my plate to fix this myself.
>
> I think Jacob Carlborg mentioned that he was working on that recently.
> Also there was a commit to dwt2's hg 2 weeks ago by somebody else
> ("kntroh") "Update to compile and execute with dmd 2.052." so it /may/ work.

This is correct. I got a patch from kntroh and DWT should work with D2 
on Windows.

> BTW: Besides looking crappy (which could probably be fixed with
> theme-support) my main issue with non-native GUIs is that they don't
> have standard filepickers.
> The GTK filepicker allows to save bookmarks to directorys and not having
> those annoys me. Furthermore those filepickers often just suck
> usability-wise.
>
> Cheers,
> - Daniel


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg