Am 04.04.2011 23:51, schrieb Matthias Pleh: > Am 04.04.2011 23:34, schrieb Daniel Gibson: >> Am 04.04.2011 23:27, schrieb Matthias Pleh: >>> was: [GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian >>> > [snip] >>> >>> This were the requirments for the GUI library: >>> - Corss-platform (Win/linux) >> >> Don't forget Mac OSX. > I just listed the requirments in our company, but you're rigth. We must > support at least the three main platforms Win/linux/OSX > >> Also note that on Linux there are two widely used toolkits, GTK and Qt, >> and that QT is better in emulating GTK than the other way round (you can >> let GTK use the current QT theme or something, but it'll still use the >> GTK filepicker etc. QT's GTK emulation is better and uses the real GTK >> filepicker). > that's true > >> > [snip] >> >> I don't know if wee need yet another GUI library. > I have not said, that it must be create a completly new library. > We just have to find out, what are the requirments for the D community, > and how can we achieve that. > Whe have mainly 4 options: > - support an existing project and help to meet our requirments > - fork an existing project and advance it to our requirments > - port a library from another language and advance it, to meet better > the D coding style > - create a new library (which also can be based on a older abandoned > project) > >> Are you sure Qt and DWT aren't good enough? > As I mentioned in my post, I couldn't assure the others. Not every > decision-maker base his decisions on pure technical arguments, sometimes > it's just his gut feeling or the cleaning lady's advice, who knows :) > > °Matthias
Maybe your company could help the DWT or QtD guys? Getting something stable out of that would most probably not take as long as developing your own cross-platform GUI toolkit. Furthermore many people are already familiar with SWT and Qt, so they wouldn't have to learn another toolkit for D. Cheers, - Daniel