Mono doesn't quite get it right in my mind, a .NET application for windows forms looks ugly (i.e. non-native) in Linux (I've only seen it on screenshots, sorry), and a .NET app for GTK# looks ugly in Windows (i.e. non-native again).
I have only seen this in screenshots, because Mono crashes on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, I have read others are having the same problem with Mono crashing and all the fixes on the net don't fix it, so I can't even test Mono until the next Ubuntu "Edgy Eft" comes out maybe, but that is unrelated. Mono would be perfect if the GUI part was platform independent and was native on each individual platform, i.e. use GTK+ on Linux and Windows Forms on Windows, I've always been very picky about applications looking native on the platform I am running, and both .NET and Java don't get this 100% right. Also, I'm still not really a fan of managed code myself, but that's just me, I still prefer native binary apps whenever possible. On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:36 +0800, Richard Vowles wrote: > I'd say that I agree that most Delphi developers wouldn't look at Kylix > simply because (a) they saw none of their market using Linux and (b) it > was way too hard. > > Kylix by the time it got to 3 made _new_ apps reasonably > straightforward. But it didn't appeal to a big enough market because > most I would say of (a). > > IMHO, Mono is the right approach. As people re-write their major apps in > .NET, and Mono gets it right, they will be able to run them on Linux > desktops with Microsoft infrastructure (I can't see them not being able > to use SQL Server and so forth on the back-end). > > Richard > --- > Richard Vowles, Product Evangelist, Developer Tools Group > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: +64-9-3600-231 > cell: +64-21-467747 > other: MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: rvowles > blog: http://www.usergroup.org.nz/blogs/selectBlog.html?id=39769 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton > Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2006 5:32 p.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: RE: [DUG] Turbo Delphi > > Personally I'd say it's not hyped enough, or at least not in the right > way. I have found that many of the people who criticize Linux either > have not used it recently or haven't even tried it seriously at all. > That's not to say Linux is perfect, but in my opinion it has already > reached a stage where it is usable for many desktop users. Surely if > Linux is to make any further headway on the desktop it *will* be on the > business desktop, because that's the place where administrators take > care of setting up the system and solving any technical issues. > > Cheers, > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
