Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?

[Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> Is there much difference between KDE and GNOME left as they rush to embrace
> MS Windows? BTW, I enjoyed OPEN LOOK mostly for its professional graphic
> design.

Of course. If you are running Gnome and install theme foo then all your
Gnome/Gtk apps will look fooish. Your Qt apps won't. Except maybe foo
looks like the Qt default. But then changing the Gnome theme to bar
will break that similarity. If you roll your own GUI this will work
with neither KDE nor Gnome. Since KDE and Gnome are probably the most
popular desktops you should get that working with at least one of
them. The last thing Linux needs is another inconsistent (with the rest
of the system) looking GUI. For Windows and OS X things are
easier. Steve tells you how things should look.

> Why should they look that way? Provided the library should specify
> look-and-feel. 

Maybe I misunderstood. Who will draw the widgets? Either Ada (the Ada
lib) does it or you leave it to some OS specific GUI layer. Which one?

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