"Christopher Wright" <dhase...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:hbcg2t$20i...@digitalmars.com... > Jacob Carlborg wrote: >> On 10/17/09 00:23, Christopher Wright wrote: >>> Jacob Carlborg wrote: >>>> On 10/16/09 12:58, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: >>>>> GtkD supports Glade. >>>> >>>> Yes, but GtkD doesn't use native controls. >>> >>> A minor point, I think. Eclipse doesn't look very native and has >>> widespread acceptance. >> >> It depends on what you're looking at. The SWT philosophy is something >> like this: Use controls that are available as native controls on as many >> platforms as possible. For example, if a control is available as native >> on 3 out of 4 platforms, use the native on the 3 platforms and emulate it >> on the fourth. If a control is only native on 1 out of 4 platforms don't >> include it in SWT. SWT also has some custom (non-native) controls like >> the tabs used by Eclipse. > > And the tabs are everywhere, and no attempt was made to make them look > native to any platform.
And they take up an *enormous* amount of space. I can't actually use them and see their labels at the same time.