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...)
it was a bit unsettling for me too, but they say they have gone over all
the options and hated them for various coding style and other reasons.
I invited the guy to give a lecture for the September IGLU meeting if
you're all interested, but if you awnt to flame ihm earlier, I can give
you his phone number :-)
--
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