From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c32fe290813aec20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr19.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library? References: <6d63c543-0a35-4c39-a330-98c63a24f64d@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1365533.nRhg4MZKNK@linux1.krischik.com> <4e5ffa74-e1d6-4e80-9dd9-824df475a60c@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <970df333-8c12-4f5d-b32b-ded6a84a0195@v4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <187iruircnfuu$.oc2g47zys18k.dlg@40tude.net> <29b4fb7f-afb5-4428-9a73-2bac655b3a27@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <14ilupzt2jywp$.up5hy9th8dnt$.dlg@40tude.net> <10yzqxceqya5j$.dz9c9n63dtwv$.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.27.98 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr19.news.prodigy.net 1200265699 ST000 68.94.27.98 (Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:08:19 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:08:19 EST X-UserInfo1: SCSYQN_@FS@]RV@[WBHB^WHAAJYFBL@MAHU^_BAMEH]TCDYG^WHOPCWZBL[\YUWHANGYZEFNHFZPNLOBUNSS^_LGEVWEY\PHO@YJSSWBBDT\PFD^ESBTXVCCMTD]JCJLE\_IJMFNRY]SWE[S[D_CNB__ZK^VGVCKHA[S@COB^[@ZQSDFQ\BPMS@DZVUKQTJL Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:08:17 -0600 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19393 Date: 2008-01-13T17:08:17-06:00 List-Id: Michael Bode wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > > >>Actually this is an independent issue. Nothing prevents us from inheriting >>the look-and-feel of the target platform. The look-and-feel should/could >>propagate up the layers, provided the design supports look-and-feel >>management. IMO it should. > > > So what look-and-feel do you use on Linux? Please don't say Athena > Widgets. There are 2 major desktops: KDE (Qt) and Gnome (Gtk). If you > want some kind of 'native' look-and-feel you better choose one of them > and don't forget support for native themes. Even Swing can do that. > > >>However, weighting look-and-feel and an ability to have a standard library, >>I would say that I am ready to sacrifice look-and-feel. > > > You won't attract many GUI developers if their apps look crappy with > your lib. > Doesn't seem to be hurting Java... -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford