Hi,
I think the message was't about the best Java GUI toolkit, but on how to
package SWT and apps that depend on them. Nothing prevents the packaging
of Java-Gnome and apps that depends on it, and it was done at least by
Fedora.
If everyone would package just the "best" app/library for each category,
How would sendmail/postfix and Gnome/KDE users feel?
But if you don't mind having your app running on Linux only (actually on
BSD and other Unixes) Java-Gnome would be a better toolkit. Go see their
websites and mailing list archives for specific reaons. :-) Actually,
using Java-Gnome is not Unix-only, just nobody did the port for Windows.
GTK itself and many apps, like Gimp and Ethereal, run fine under Windows
using the GTK port.
[]s, Fernando Lozano
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:14:22PM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
What about Java-GNOME?
Java-GNOME is a fine project, but in all honesty, SWT is a
tried-tested-and-true solution. Moreover it gives you cross-platform
compatibility to Windows (and like it or not, Windows does
matter on the desktop).
I don't use many Java apps on the desktop. In fact, I used to
*hate* java for desktop app because of Swing (mind you, I do
Java for a living :)). And yeah, AWT is a joke nowadays for
anything serious, so it's not even worth a mention.
Eclipse changed all that for me. It showed me that a Java app
can look and feel "native". It's nice. If I needed to do a
desktop app and wanted to code it in Java, why pick anything
else other than SWT for my toolkit?
