I've been looking at GtkD and it seems very complete and up to
date in terms of exposing the Gtk+ API and wrapping it, but
there's still a lot of Dification that could be done which would
make it much closer to an ideal gui toolkit:
- Compile time implementation of GtkBuilder
- Instead of connecting up signals using strings specified in
glade, use @Handles attribute to easily hook up to events from D
code
- Generator to easily convert a D class into a custom widget for
glade, completing the circle
- Automated setup so it's easier to get started using GtkD and
glade
Advantages:
- Relatively small amount of work required
- Could be made to support most of the features suggested so far,
potentially even hardware acceleration using the experimental
opengl back-end
- Lots of potential for Dification
- GtkD already works well
- Cross platform
Disadvantages:
- Gtk+ is a fairly large dependency
- It's not D, although on the other hand it's not C++ either :P
