What keeps you from using gtkd or dlangui

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 18:28 -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
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> I absolutely, positively cannot stand software that uses GTK for GUIs
> (including Unity and GNOME...not that anybody actually uses GNOME 
> anymore) regardless of whether I'm running on Windows or Linux. So I 
> definitely won't write software that uses it either, if I can help
> it. 

Lots of us use GNOME and are proud to do so.

> That rules out gtkd. I'm sure it's a fine set of bindings, but I'm
> not 
> about to force a GTK UI on any poor end user.

Neither am I, but I still like GNOME and hence use GTK. But for
portability Qt is where to be.

> As for dlangui, the stuff about OpenGL makes it sound like it's not 
> using native widgets, and I don't like using software that does that.
> 
> I haven't really done GUI stuff in D yet, but if I were, I'd look
> into 
> DWT or see what shape wxD is in. Too bad we don't have Qt, I hear 
> nothing but good things about it.

As far as I am aware SWT is only used in Eclipse. Given Qt is used in
far more widespread and disparate places, it strikes me as a better
choice.

wx has always been interesting, well wxPython was. However that fell
into disrepair and the follow on Phoenix never got off the ground.
Shame, wx had a lot going for it. wxD appears to be stalled/fallow/in
disrepair. Might it be worth picking up? wxWidgets is still going
strong, however Qt is where the wave is for cross platform.

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Russel.
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