Hello, > Should developers consider Gtk# or the new Mono > Windows.Forms (or whatever it will be called) in > planning and design phases for new GUI projects?
Gtk# will continue to be developed, and will continue to track the Gtk and Gnome development platforms. Windows.Forms should be considered a library for bringing developers from Windows to Linux easily. Windows.Forms has a number of limitations imposed by the commitment to API compatibility with Windows which are particularly annoying for developing international application (and by extension any open source apps that have to be localized). Also keep in mind that Microsoft will move developers to a third toolkit, so Windows.Forms is effectively a toolkit that will not likely grow to address its limitations in next few years. If you are developing a new application today, and you do not mind the Gtk+ dependency, it is a better path to follow as Gtk+ blends nicely to internationalization and is being upgraded to add vector-based rendering with its current API. Windows.Forms is still a useful tool if most of your development will happen on Windows and you will target mostly Windows systems. Miguel. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
