Well good news to those in fear of Microsoft legislation. Mono will be split in ECMA C#/Mono and non-ECMA parts: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html
On 3 Jul., 01:21, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > I use a few Java desktop applications and none of them show orange > windows and security dialogs. Don't confuse the applet/webstart > experience with what is happening on a normal desktop install. > > Regarding the lack of native look and feel I have mixed feelings. > Neither Windows nor Linux do a good job in providing a consistent look > and feel to begin with, so why should I really care? It needs to be > similar, but not the same. I actually have written an app that default > to the Plastik look and feel and I have never had someone complain about > that, I truly believe most users probably would tell you that it looks > exactly like all the other programs they use. It doesn't, but people > abstract from those details, particularly in times where half the > application they use on a daily basis have a ribbon, the other half don't. > > The one thing that always annoys me with Swing is the crappy file > dialog, though. Gnome finally got one that is as good as the KDE one, > but the one Swing has does not even compete with the Windows one. And > that is setting the barrier low -- unless we want to include Motif as > candidate :-) > > The story with print dialogs is at least as bad, but somehow print > dialogs seem always a pain -- many Windows programs bring their own and > on Linux it's a real mess. > > If Swing would have decent file and print I would not notice Swing apps > at all during may daily work. > > Peter > > Casper Bang wrote: > > On 2 Jul., 15:08, Juan Marín Otero <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I stand corrected, misinterpretation on my part. > > > Fair enough. :) > > >> In fact, I use it on my Ubuntu laptop constantly. I did not know that it > >> was > >> written in Mono either. > > > That seems like pretty good testament to the technology. Especially > > considering what people complain about with Java on the desktop > > (orange Java logo's, security dialogs, not native looking, no screen > > reader support). > > >> I have also used F-Spot and others written in that language for that > >> platform, but I still don't see the extra value they provide by being > >> written in Mono. > > > Well I suppose some people are just tired of week types, malloc/free > > and having no way to compose in components - I'd consider myself one > > of those. > > > /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
