> Anyway, implementing windows.forms might help some windows guy port his > application on Linux. However, to the Linux user it will look too > "windowish" and it might cause localization issues, etc.
Not really, you can always patch winelib to use your toolkit rendering primitives so it "looks" native. With Gnome moving to customizable keybindings (with Windows being the default). I do not really see a "feel" problem either. > I think the original intent of the mono project is being lost. Miguel, > please correct me if I'm wrong. The original intent was to get a nice > set of development tools to write Gnome/Linux application with. My objectives with Mono are different than other's peoples objectives. I want language independence and reusable components on Unix, which has historically been something that we did with Gnome. Mono offers a new platform to achieve these objectives. But Mono is not what I chose it to be, Mono is what the community chooses it to be, and the community has very different interests: from production needs, to training needs to research needs. Ximian will contribute to Gtk#, because that is where we see ourselves building and supporting applications in the future. If I had more resources we would be developing every bit of the .NET framework, and if I had even more, I would develop a lot of new things on top of it, and with even more I would build a complete system on it. The survey though, points out that most people are interested in Windows.Forms, and very few are interested in Gtk#/Qt#. Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
