We're currently using GXT on a large project and I'd like to say that "GXT's layout system is alien to GWT, the documentation is nonexistant, the appearance is highly inflexible, and the attitude of the support team sucks (even for customers that pay for support). Consider, for a moment, that there is nobody at Ext commenting on the GXT-related threads that show up in this forum. Totally out to lunch. "
is 100% accurate to my experience. I don't have the luxury of ripping it out of my app at work, but I wouldn't use it in personal app if it were free. Everything you know about GWT and GWT widgets can basically be thrown out the window. The event model is entirely different. The widgets have a ton of properties that are set on construction that you cannot change. Oh and when you decide on GXT know that you're probably going to be locked into that version and will not be able to upgrade to any new versions of the software. I would recommend not using GXT. On Feb 3, 2:22 am, Sanjiv Jivan <sanjiv.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bogdan, > Thanks for the kind words :) Constructive criticism is always welcome as the > goal is to improve the product. However please do follow up with the > appropriate posts and report enhancements / issues in tracker. > > Regarding the Calendar event dialog customization, that appears to be an > enhancement request rather than a bug. I still could not find a user id by > your name however I did find a similar thread : > > http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=4900 > > As you can see, the user was advised to > > 1) either create an enhancement request that other users could vote on or > 2) make the enhancement themselves since it is open source and share their > work. > > However no such enhancement request was created in tracker. Please email me > your SmartGWT forum user name so that I can view the other posts / issues > reported by you. > > New features are being added to SmartGWT / SmartClient at a really really > fast pace. This should be evident by the release notes of each new release, > and the commit logs in SVN. For example some 10 significant new features > have already been added since the SmartGWT 2.0 release, and countless other > minor enhancements as well. So unless users file issues and enhancements, it > is not going to be easy to track. Moreover even if you do have a feature > request, prioritization will depend on the number of votes it receives which > is typical of how most OSS works. If you are a commercial entity you also > have the option of contacting Isomorphic and getting the feature added in a > timeframe that meets your needs. As mentioned above, you can also dive in > and make the change yourself since it is open source. > > So kindly be a little patient when reporting enhancements and issues, and > follow up by posting a request in tracker with a testcase if you encounter a > bug. > > Sanjiv > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bogdan Maryniuck > <b.maryni...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Sanjiv Jivan <sanjiv.ji...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > It's quite easy to criticize a library, isn't it? > > > Sanjiv, I remember all that ugly story with you and Ext stuff. And > > really appreciate the thing you do. But still, what's wrong with a > > constrictive criticism? I am using SmartGWT as the only lib so far in > > many projects (although free version :-). So at least I have a right > > to "smoke my cigarette" and share with others that the lib is not very > > brilliant BUT usable, so no need to run elsewhere, but TRY to improve > > it (that's what I said between the lines, BTW). And you also have a > > right to listen my stupid feedback and make your own conclusions. :-) > > > Besides, as a little example among dozen of others, folks (including > > myself) were sending multiple complains to the forum about calendar > > dialogs that are not customizable, that they are literally fugly: > > because who would need ridiculously big dialog while editing an event, > > but widgets are very small and grouped at left/top corner? — all the > > rest space is for banners and ads or something?.. How to nicely > > replace that dialog with my own and why this is so obvious thing > > simply hard-coded? etc. Or I am missing something and this is changed > > already? So far I've simply either got ignored or being told "we won't > > change that". > > > Hence, if you, guys, "won't change that because we said so", then I > > doubt anyone would waste their time writing any feedback or bugreport > > knowing it will be rejected/ignored anyway... > > > -- > > bm > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. 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