On 20/01/2010 11:00, James E. LaBarre wrote: > Regarding the *NIX/X11 vs Win32/GDI versions of packages, I'm presuming > the GDI versions are for developers who want to port a *NIX app to > Windows without requiring the user to have Cygwin/X installed.
FLTK and Tk are both cross-platform toolkits. The GDI versions are great for native Windows (MinGW/MSVC), but mixing Cygwin'x *NIX APIs and the Win32 GDI doesn't really work well (e.g. different path handling). Nevertheless, these and other packages assume that Cygwin should use the Win32 APIs, so they build that way by default and need some work to de-Win32-ify them. > Of course, I'm someone who would like to be able to use Gnome as a > replacement Windows shell (a la Litestep or SharpE). The GNOME *desktop* isn't usable on Cygwin/X, but the lighter LXDE, ROX, and Xfce desktops are, and even KDE4 looks to be usable[1]. But what I do is run in multiwindow, with fbpanel (on the top of my screen, 400-500 pixels wide and centered) and a few apps I always want running in my ~/.startxwinrc, and then use fbpanel's menu to launch terminals, file browsers, and other apps as I need them. Yaakov [1] http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=99645&ssid=120916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
