Angelo, Am 10.05.11 11:18, schrieb Angelo zerr: > Hi Tom, > > I would like tell you that the original E4/CSS Engine comes from TK-UI > <http://tk-ui.sourceforge.net/> project. When I have developed this CSS > engine, I tried to split it to Core and Implementation (like today). E4 > use SWT implementation but TK-UI provides Swing Implementation > <http://tk-ui.sourceforge.net/user-guide/cssengine/swingcssengine.html>. > I know that CSS Engine Core is based on today on Extension Point, but I > have created the capability to use Extension Point without OSGi > http://angelozerr.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/eclipse-extension-points-and-extensions-without-osgi/ >
The major problem is not CSS which is not so much of a point in Swing with its plugable L&F. The main problem with SWT is that the native controls can't be customized enough to make slick UIs without investing a lot of time and/or to write custom widgets to replace them. Another thing when it comes to advanced UIs are animation support, gradients, scenegraphs, ... - I know those things are not really needed for IDE and some Form-Based-Applications. I've just been reading the Qt5-Whitepaper and well what should I say that makes my me jump ;-) Tom _______________________________________________ e4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev
