And thats exactly of what the guy from g company was afraid of if You go for gtk, You antagonize the qt fundamentalists and vice versa, I do personally support the choice of gtk and for a quicker development gtk+. Id have a special perspective on gtk and gtk+ on directfb as it might be an important runner up as if You were aiming for those in the end.
All the best with Chromium. On Feb 16, 4:31 pm, vida18 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 fév, 05:27, "Ben Goodger (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > In general, we've avoided cross platform UI toolkits because while > > they may offer what superficially appears to be a quick path to native > > looking UI on a variety of target platforms, once you go a bit deeper > > it turns out to be a bit more problematic. As Amanda says, your app > > ends up "speaking with a foreign accent". > > > Our experience is that using these frameworks also limits what you can > > do to a lowest common denominator subset of what's supported by that > > framework on each platform. > > > My initial thought was that a Windows-clone would be acceptable on > > Linux provided the performance of the app itself was outstanding, > > given the general reluctance of some of the team working on Linux > > towards UI. But they stood up and made their case for a GTK UI, and so > > if you read the other thread on this topic posted to this list > > yesterday, you'll see that that's what we've decided to do. A > > Windows-clone would most definitely not be acceptable on MacOS X, > > where the APIs for UI development are highly evolved and have many > > outstanding features. So that's always been the plan there. views is > > still theoretically portable, but it's unlikely we'll ever use this > > capability. The architecture of Chrome has converged over the past few > > months on a solid separation of view from state, and this has given us > > the flexibility to make these decisions and choose from the widest > > range of alternatives. > > > -BenOn Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Peter Petrov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This thread sounds really scary. Although it was initially claimed > > > that Chrome was designed to be cross-platform from the ground up, it's > > > obviously full of windows-isms at almost every level. Now it seems you > > > will be forced to maintain a separate UI port for each platform. > > > > I sincerely wonder, why didn't you just use Qt for the UI from the > > > beginning? It blends very well with the native look&feel on each > > > platform, while still letting you implement the distinctive Chrome > > > features. Qt 4.5 will even have native look in GNOME. > > I agree with Peter Petrov. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
