RE: [DotGNU]define official DotGNU GUI toolkit

[Simon Guindon]

Yeah Qt isn't a good option because of its license.
I believe the cygwin statements are false as well, I'm pretty sure I've ran
Qt and GTK apps both on win32 without cygwin.

I think PNET needs to wait and let the GUI toolkits mature before picking
one.  Theres great promise for the Winforms implementation but its still
early to say if its going to have much performance hurt and how good it will
be.

The advantage to using Winforms is currently developed apps already will
work on other platforms.  People using VS.NET don't have to redo their code
on another toolkit to accomodate portability.

The downfalls on GTK is development isn't as easy, even with glade.  With
winforms theres already 2 IDE's that handle Winforms designers along with a
debugger etc and thats VS.NET and the very good free IDE SharpDevelop.

I think we need to wait and see what evolves.

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Simon Guindon
Nureality Networks
www.nureality.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Compall [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: December 6, 2002 1:59 PM
To: DotGNU developers
Subject: Re: [DotGNU]define official DotGNU GUI toolkit


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Eric Altendorf wrote:
 > I don't recall for sure but I could have sworn I downloaded some
 > software for win2k one time that required Qt (probably a gnutella
 > client) and so I grabbed a Qt DLL or some such and ran it fine.  I'm
 > pretty sure I never installed cygwin.

You think of Qt noncommercial edition for Windows.  This is
GPL-incompatible.

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