Nonsense. Mono and Gtk# work extremely well today. I know, I've built a fully functional app (Gfax) and all one has to do is look at a few other apps such as F-Spot, Muine, Monodoc and Monodevelop to realize this.
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 23:05, Joop wrote: > Hi lists, (hope this does not get mis-understood... I'm not subscribed > to any of the non-mono-lists :-( although I maybe should be) > this problem I have seen with Mono and the other .NET implementations is > just the problem the original poster poses. There is not "real > commitment to"/"clear road-a-head for"/"direction in" supporting the GUI > side of things. The GUI is left far behind compared to the > file/networking/HTML/server etc. etc. support in these .NET > implementations. This is why it is not yet fully usable to all those > developers that only want to create a 'simple' GUI application. Hope > this will change soon as I do have the desire to go an write some nice > programs in .NET. I just don't have the need to all the > file/networking/HTML/server stuff yet. > wkr, > Joop Zonnet > > Giuseppe Greco wrote: > > Hi Marcus, > > > > Of course, Mono is still under development, but the most > > important components are there, and they work. Here, at > > Agamura, we are developing a sophisticated online gaming > > delivery network on Linux with Mono, and up to now, we > > have had just few problems... Furthermore, when we report > > a bug, it is always fixed in a short time! > > > > Mono's implementation of ASP.NET is also usable and > > mod_mono/apache seems to be faster than .NET/ISS. > > > > We use NAnt as build tool, and we are able to compile a > > project either on Linux or MS Windows with no changes > > (even if we compile on Windows just for test purposes). > > > > I think Mono will be one of the best .NET alternatives... > > and don't forget that behind Mono there is a company > > like Novell... > > > > So, don't feel frustrated and go ahead. > > > > j3d. > > > > > >>After trying to work with Mono, Portable.NET, Qt, and KDE, I've realized > >>that > >>I'm fighting a battle that I cannot win. Mono supports Gtk# (and GTK+) to > >>the > >>exclusion of any other platform. Portable.NET is behind their own SWF > >>implementation, but at least they are a bit more agnostic. The Qt/KDE > >>community seems to find the entire concept of C# and its use of metadata > >>and > >>JIT compilation repulsive. > >> > >>I'm tired of trying and failing. I'm tired of having no one to support me. > >>I'm > >>tired of feeling isolated and alone. > >> > >>It's just not worth it. Maybe I will end up Windows XP and .NET. Who > >>knows. I > >>just know that the Free software community has got to be the most hostile > >>and > >>intolerant group of people I have ever encountered. > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > >> > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Giuseppe Greco > > > > ::agamura:: > > > > phone: +41 (0)91 604 67 65 > > mobile: +41 (0)76 390 60 32 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > web: www.agamura.com > > ---------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list -- George Farris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list