On Fri, 29 May 1998, Paul Duran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure that this question has been asked several times before but I'm
> wondering if anybody has looked at using Gtk for the peer components in the
> AWT. Java allows for the peers to be defined by the implementation, and so I
> think it would be really nice (and even a bit unique) if there was an
> implementation of the AWT in GTK. There seems to be no reason to stay tied
> to motif (which is 1: not free 2: bulky and 3: must be used as statically
> linked for those of us who dont have motif installed on our system).
>
> With the current linux trend steering towards Gnome/GTK , it would be really
> fantastic for there to be an AWT implementation in GTK. Some ppl mentioned
> earlier about implementing GTL l&f in swing, but this would remove that
> necessity and also provide a very significant speed increase.
I still thing that a GTK L&F for swing would be a better approach because
I hope to never instantiate a java.awt.Button or a java.awt.Choice. Instead
I want to use JButton, JTree, etc. In this case I'm back to a non GTK
L&F because the GTK stuff is in the heavy and feature lacking peers.
Travis
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Travis Shirk
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