Well this got accedently posted to the cvs list. Someone else pointed out this error and I just want to foward it to correct list.
He helped with the last part of the message, but if others want to chime in go ahead. Douglas > > Kaloian. > > I should have made clear that part of the Feel is responsivness of the UI. > Having programmed using AWT, and somewhat in Swing. > > Most people have said that it doesn't feel like a native app. > > The other issue is Menu layout. No matter how much work you go > into the menu layout, one of the groups will complain about it. > that the Layout is different than what they are use to. > > > But on that note, there are complaints that even Win Forms don't have > the responsiveness that people expect from the platform. (on windows > that is) > > But back to mono. Winforms shouldn't be the universal UI if it was ever > chosen to be. MS has tied it to closely to parts of the OS that are not > available (perhaps in WINE, but not in general) > > And each OS has it's own quirks. How a menu is set up. and other small > features that make up the entire UI. > > I will tell you one that that intrigues me, and I would probably just program > with it if it works out. I need support for dyanmic change UI. > > An example would be thus. I need to support multiple cultures within the same > software. (IOW, it can't be locked down in the compiled code) I was looking at > mozilla as a front end. But if GTK# basically can do the same thing. > > Allow the UI to change according a culture by culture basis. but not > universally, > on a Data element basis. > > For example. If I have a database of addresses, you have the common US address > format and data entry tabs etc. But for the Ukraine where the layout is > basically > reversed. That is the type of thing I am looking at. The statement that Pango > and > GTK+ dynamically support translations by adjusting the size on a per language > basis also peaked my insterest. > > any comments?? > > Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-cvs-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-cvs-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
