Humm.. ok, and with all the critics we had so far because of Tk, I think it would be better if we choose something that really is gtk/qt/native... You say nothing else does support multiple toolkits.. maybe you just didn't find the product that does it yet... so searching a bit more might give you the result you're looking for... anyways, the original idea was to write it ourself, so i think if we can define a specific structure for the XMLs and write our own reader/interpreter.. then we can easily get a Tk toolkit, and then we could add the gtk, qt, win32, etc.. toolkits... The specs for the XML should do whatever we want to do, but we could refer to existing solutions, if we can find an existing xml2gui project, even if it has only one toolkit supported, if all of its xml specs are perfect for us, then we could do as I said before, but using the existing solution it would save us one implementation... don't forget, this ain't gonna be done overnight, so don't be afraid either by the amount of work needed, we can always go gradually.. maybe we'll always have Tk toolkit and support only Tk (I would rather choose tile directly than Tk + chameleon), and maybe in many years, add gtk support, but at least, if someone asks for gtk, it won't be "WE CAN'T DO IT", it will be "we can, we just don't feel like doing it right now"... that's the whole point of the xml2gui project, to not be limited by our implementation...
KKRT On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:29:34PM +0200, Harry Vennik wrote: > Op woensdag 19 juli 2006 21:58, schreef Harry Vennik: > > > Yeah if you like XULRunner why not... I don't try to force using of > > > TkHtml but I think (as it was said some months ago) that a multi-GUI soft > > > would be great as you could use XULRunner and we could use TkHtml and > > > with that we don't force user to use GTK or things like that... They can > > > use other things... Phil > > > > That is a very nice intention, I even share that intention, but we must > > have one thing that will render the GUI using any toolkit, and XULRunner is > > the only one I found that has support for multiple toolkits! > Bad news: The multiple toolkit support turns out to be FAKED!!! Still better > than nothing, but I think widgets should just be native (for Linux at least > GTK, and supporting Qt would be nice too). So I think, based on this new > fact, that we should reconsider if XULRunner will really be the right thing, > although it is still the best existing solution (nothing else has multiple > toolkit support, neither real nor faked). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
