FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: wxWidgets, was: Re: Pe in SVN ?

["Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 14/02/2008, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 14/02/2008, Finn Bastiansen <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > Hi Francois,
>  > >
>  > >  hm, that's interesting, I didn't know about it :-)
>  > >  I will have to ask the other guys. Or maybe some other person has
>  > > taken
>  > >  over the project.
>  >
>  > Actually I was wondering, why porting a UI toolkit to Haiku?
>  > Isn't the Haiku native one good enough?
>  >
>
>
> Because many specialized or professional apps are written for them.
>  Some niche stuff (scientific apps, ... SciLab uses Tcl/Tk) use them for
>  their GUI, and they are just too complex to rewrite or even write a
>  native GUI.
>  Having ports of those toolkits should allow real companies to port
>  their software and us to focus on wider apps.
>  That doesn't mean we will use them for native apps, just for porting
>  some stuff faster and concentrate on others.
>
>  Plus unlike many, wx tries to use native controls as much as possible.

Ok. I just thought, but probably I am not the only one, that if we start porting
lots and lots of apps and/or toolkits, we just become another OS.

Regards,
Salvo