On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Chen Shapira wrote:
> > > Anyone interested in working on such a library? a c++ toolkit
> > > from-scratch? there's an Israeli startup taking on
> > Gnome/Gtk, Eazel and
> > > Helix together with a GPL kit of their own, and they are looking for
> > > people.
>
> I'm in the dark here.
> Why write a Graphic Toolkit from scratch? there are many avaliable, in
> diffrent licenses, languages, stages of development, etc. Plenty of space to
> choose from and then adapt to your own taste. All are pretty decent.
>
> The one language that desperatly need an open toolkit is Java. Both common
> toolkits AWT+SWING are controlled by Sun. AWT is too limited, SWING is too
> heavy. I want a free toolkit to play with. (BTW. I heard that GNU is
> duplicating AWT in a free toolkit. Too bad this project doesn't advance...)
AWT is dead. It can't support Unicode bidi because of its peer based
architecture. Sun is only doing limited bug fixing. FYI Sun is
recommending that everyone move to Swing. At some point in the distant
future AWT will be depreciated.
Regards,
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