"Christopher Wright" wrote > Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 10/16/09 12:58, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: >>> GtkD supports Glade. >> >> Yes, but GtkD doesn't use native controls. > > A minor point, I think. Eclipse doesn't look very native and has > widespread acceptance.
SWT wrap native controls, and Eclipse is build on SWT, but for an application like Eclipse, use system provide native controls is no enough, you have to write some custom control. Here is the problem, Java developers just unable to write good looking GUI components or applications using any library, neither Swing nor SWT. for examples, Swing is really powerful GUI frameworks, Java2D is quite powerful, and Swing is very flexible, but most Swing applications are really ugly. Eclipse doesn't look very native because they using ugly tab for layout, you can change that by provide your owner theme. more than 99% controls in Eclipse are native controls... There is the link of custom theme for Eclipse: http://www.agpad.com/images/ide_m.png Eric
