On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 9:31 pm, Karl Bowden wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:58, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Karl Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's ok. My idea of having DFBCafe included in DirectFB was to ensure > > > that the widget toolkit was STANDARD. Just to prevent what has happened > > > with KDE, Gnome, TK, Mozilla, etc. > > > > what exactly is bad about having a variety of toolkits? The only thing > > that's annoying is if they interact badly. Lately the KDE and GNOME > > people put a lot of effort into improving the interoperability of > > their applications. If you are interested you should probably have a > > look at http://www.freedesktop.org/. There are a couple of > > toolkit-independent proposals and specs there that should definitely > > be considered for whatever new application framework you are designing. > > Completly agreed. I will have a good look at freedesktop.org. But a lot > of developers I have talked to in my travels, have felt that linux was > not ready as a viable alternative to windows for there applications, > because of the fact that there are so many standard toolkits for X11. > They will not write a program for gnome for fear of kde people not using > it and vise versa. If we give DirectFB a standard toolkit that is > themeable to FEEL like gnome or kde or anything, then developers just > have to write the app for the api, and the clients choose how they want > (all) their apps to look.
There are multiple toolkits on Windows. Qt for instance is on Windows, Mac and a bunch of Unix like systems. (Qt is what is under KDE). Some people have this bias, but not all. My life is Qt, but I run Gimp. I don't care that its a GTK program, I just want a good image manipulation program. The people who would shun Gnome for KDE are not going to flock to option 3 anyway. Don't theme to KDE or Gnome either. DirectFB is more powerful than that. Design a DirectFB theme (or themeing standard) and get the KDE/Gnome to match that. Qt on the Mac looks like a Mac application, on XP looks like XP. KDE therefore should look like a DirectFB application, not the other way around. In fact (and sorry to the KDE/Qt people out there) Push the GTK/Gnome stuff first. Its closer and once its up and running, it will give the KDE people all that more reason to port. -- Ian. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
