> It's no use building 50 wrappers for GUI toolkits, we need a single > stable 100% working toolkit.
I agree... > A GUI toolkit will only succeed if > > - It runs on both Windows & *Nix platforms without restrictions > - It can be easely installed by grandpa and grandma > - There is a good GUI form editor available (think about it, why else > are there so much VB6/Delphi developers out there, productivity doesn't > come from VI) It depends... > > Sure support for SWF needs to be offered, but I doubt it will ever work > 100%. GTK# is actually a good candidate, but there are still lots of > things missing when it comes to windows. I do not agree 100%. Gtk# is very, very nice, but it's not the standard .NET GUI toolkit. I think developers would love to create .NET apps and just install them on Windows or *Nix as they are, without further installations... > However with the upcoming visual editor for MonoDevelop its future looks > very promising. Yes, but MonoDevelop should also support SWF. > Open source has new releases very frequently so for the end user it's > rather cumbersome to stay up-to-date. > One of the reasons windows developers grab to SWF is because at least > they don't have to update every five seconds to get it working. > (of course I woudn't have it any other way, I like frequent updates :p) > Woudn't it be nice of you could just install GTK# in the GAC once using > a quick NSIS installer and then use it?. > > oh well.... > I like developing libraries, I'll stick to that for now :p > Timothy. j3d. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
