On 19/10/2012 05:26, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > But xwt... > > "Xwt is a new .NET framework for creating desktop applications that run > on multiple platforms from the same codebase. Xwt works by exposing one > unified API across all environments that is mapped to a set of native > controls on each platform." > > I wish them the best of luck, but I've heard this song before, and it > doesn't usually work out well. The underlying controls don't correspond > to each other 1:1 and you get left with least-common-denominator and > lots of edge conditions. Even if that works out there is the question > of how hard they will work on the Gtk backend [xwt sits on top of a > 'native' toolkit, one backend is Gtk]. So you could end up with xwt as > a cross-toolkit abstraction layer that works on Windows and Mac and > others are red-headed step-children. I doubt Xamarin has any real > interest in anything outside of Windows and Mac.
I totally agree with this. A very good example of this is WxWidgets in C++, which looks pretty ugly and out of place on Linux. And then there's Swing in Java, which... well let's not go there. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
_______________________________________________ Gtk-sharp-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list
