The whole "look like native apps" was a big waste of time, as the trend has been for quite a while to create custom UIs. Nobody cares that their Flex apps don't look like native apps, or that Google Apps on your desktop look quite different from anything else you have. Sun chasing perfect platform fidelity was a waste of time.
The irony to me is that Eclipse looks less like a native app to me than something like Netbeans. It's also a step back in UI programming, I mean, really the last time I had to deallocate color resources was when I was doing Xt programming for X. We're in 2010 now. Augusto On Sep 20, 4:49 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well if they give JavaFX a *really* nice Java API so one can use it from > > Java as easily as Swing, then there's nothing more compelling about SWT due > > to this announcement. > > > SWT has no point over Swing at this point (vs. when it was originally > > created) unless you or your users are *really *hung up on widgets or fonts > > tracking the native platforms *perfectly*. Some of us really and truly > > could care less. > > You probably mean "could not care less", otherwise you're agreeing with me > :-) > > A lot of people care about applications looking like the host OS they are > running in, and SWT/JFace/EclipseRCP is way ahead of Swing in that area. > > > Just give us a decent UI that runs on any desktop OS without any extra > > native libraries, etc (which kills the notion of SWT immediately) > > How so? Swing uses native libraries as well (well, AWT does). They are just > implementing the UI at a different level than SWT. > > The whole "native libraries are evil" thing died more than ten years ago. > > and a reasonable API (which Swing has in my book). The rest of the Eclipse > > > RCP might be nice -- but it's "contaminated" by SWT for those who want no > > part of SWT. > > Sounds like a pretty arbitrary and emotional position, but whatever works > for you. > > -- > Cédric -- 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.
