There is this one that is being developed https://github.com/mono/xwt and will be the foundation of MonoDevelop in the future from what I understand.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM, 殷启聪 <[email protected]> wrote: > Why there's no any cross-platform GUI toolkit that's written natively > in C#? I'm tired of using bindings. Is it possible to develop a C# GUI > toolkit that's OpenGL accelerated (like WPF and Clutter), > cross-platform (like wxWidgets and Qt) and uses native widgets in > different desktop environment? Then GTK+, Qt etc. will be used as low > level components. > 2012/9/11 Stifu <[email protected]>: >> The most recent bit of news I've read about GTK# 3: >> >> http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Towards-GTK-3-0-tp4650597.html >> >> >> Daniel Hughes wrote >>> >>> GTK 3 was released 10 Feb 2011. That's a long time ago. >>> >>> During that time .net bindings have failed to eventuate. Information on >>> what has been happening has been very hard to find, despite a large number >>> of .net applications on linux using these bindings. >>> >>> As the author of an opensource application dependent on these bindings I >>> find this lack of information very concerning. And I'm starting to ask >>> myself questions like, Am I now dependent of a dead or dieing library? >>> >>> Banshee was removed from the default ubuntu install, officially because of >>> lack of GTK 3 support. >>> >>> I have the following questions: >>> >>> Where is the source code for GTK 3 support? >>> As far as I can establish the GTK sharp code is hosted here: >>> https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp<https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp/branches> >>> However there is no branch in there labelled as GTK3 >>> >>> Who supports GTK sharp? >>> If it is community maintained, who are the main contributors? >>> >>> Is there a projected or planned release date for GTK 3 support? >>> Developers dependent on GTK sharp need this information in order to plan >>> the future of there applications. >>> >>> If GTK sharp is really dying then application developers dependent on it >>> need to know, so they can either contribute to it or move there >>> applications on to something else. >>> >>> If the bindings are struggling, how come there has been no call >>> for contributors, or at least transparent information about what is going >>> on. Rather then the current back whole of information. >>> >>> Recently ubuntu held an app competition, it was hugely successful and >>> while >>> it was on people where asking questions like this: >>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/154373/use-primary-toolbar-with-mono >>> And all we could do was advice that they use another language. >>> >>> If we lose GTK# bindings where does that leave mono on desktop linux? We >>> have no QT bindings, no clutter bindings and no GTK# 3 bindings. in sort >>> we >>> have no bindings available (by that I mean packaged in debian or similar) >>> for the latest version of any native linux GUI tool kit. >>> >>> I'm going to say this again, mono developers cannot use the latest version >>> of any native linux GUI tool kit. >>> >>> Now maybe the GTK# bindings are alive and well and are about to issue a >>> release. However if that is true then the developers have a lot of room >>> for >>> improvement with there communications. >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Daniel Hughes >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >>> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/GTKsharp-3-tp4656569p4656570.html >> Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list -- Website: http://earl-of-code.com _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
