Mono for one, is a good start but there is a huge debate around its openness... someone familiar on that can elaborate...
apart from that, i do agree --- gnome needs a single framework (something like Qt) instead of the myriad of options... these options (though its nice to play with) plays to the advantage of apple and MS... On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Atul jangra <[email protected]> wrote: > This is exactly why I started GNOME development so late. Undoubtedly It is > the fastest software , but with poor SDKs , and APIs. > We should step forward in this direction . > Regards > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Michele Alex D. De Pascalis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Just look around: Apple and Microsofts have their own SDKs, APIs and >> > IDEs perfectly working with them. Compared to these, developing for GNOME >> > is >> > way too hard and complicated. Maybe we have the fastest software, but we >> > have to write with Gtk, which is just a toolkit, without anything else >> > really integrating it. And C is over, so autogenerating a wrapper isn't a >> > good solution (talking about gtkmm). If a newbie gets in touch with Cocoa >> > and Xcode, he gets templates, he gets wide documentation, he connects >> > events >> > with handlers by a drag'n'drop, cutting on the IDE's editor. >> > But it's not just about the IDE itself, it's also about paradigms: Apple >> > chose Model View Controller and Delegation, and everything is written >> > around >> > these, and it takes seconds to add a View to your application. >> > I'm saying this because I've been learning Cocoa for eight months, and I >> > had learnt C++ before. Even now I know C++ is better in many ways, but >> > trying back Gtk made me understand it's not about the language, now. Those >> > who write iOS or Mac apps know what I mean with all this. >> >> Completely agree. I think that a lot of other GNOME contributors would >> agree also. >> >> I really hope that we will have an SDK one day. >> >> Allan >> -- >> IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org >> Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-love mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > > > > > -- > Atul jangra > Computer Science and Engineering > Indian Institute of Technology ,Delhi > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-love mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love > _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
