Hi Fabrice, > That's also my impression, but note that SWT is based on GTK on linux > and GTK tends to loose momentum currently. I google'd a bit and a few people seem to think that. However, I don't see this as a big issue. There are so many GTK-based applications, and on Linux, GTK stuff looks the best IMHO..
> As far as I know, you have to ship platform specific binary parts. > This can be a pain. Depends: As mentioned in the other post, it's shipped with the swt.jar. Let's see what Vincent finds out :-) > Well, what about a more declarative approach to GUI, as in Apache > Pivot (https://pivot.apache.org/)? This is supposedly the cool thing > in JavaFX (the declarative aspect) and it is also quite similar to > Android GUI programming. I've looked at Apache Pivot and the demos look nice. However, it looks far from a native application. I really like the GUI to look native because whenever I have to choose an application, I immediately tend towards the "native" looking application. Maybe it's just me, but I think users tend to what they know and like... > Under linux, we might want to use dbus. The Java support is not perfect, > but it's a really nice system. It probably is, but we should use something that's cross platform and can also be used via other frontends or remotely. Best Philipp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
