[openbeos] Re: wxWidgets, was: Re: Pe in SVN ?
- From: "Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:20:17 +0000
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
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