On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 09:38, E.L. Willighagen wrote: > (Are there Gnome bindings too?) ... > Could that be an alternative to build truely free Debian Java GUI > programs?
There is the java-gnome project which does just this. I am one of the upstream developers and maintain the debian packages (main binaries libgtk0-java libgnome0-java). Unfortunately, it is not yet considered stable. The largest application to be written using java-gnome is probably bugwatcher (available in the debbuggtk package), a system for monitoring Debian package bug listings. In developing this, I have had to make a number of changes to the java-gnoem source; if you want to develop applications with java-gnome at this stage, you would probably have to do the same (but hopefully to a smaller extent :). java-gnome is getting better, but is not yet perfect. Advantages of java-gnome: - Completely free - Seems much faster (difference between it and native gtk is hardly noticable on modern machines) - Full gnome support - applications will fit in well with a Linux desktop and can take advantage of such things as gconf, gnome session management, various gnome widgets. - (IMHO) A much nicer API to work with -- .''`. Mark Howard : :' : `. `' http://www.tildemh.com `- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]