Re: [E-devel] Starting programming in EFL

[Jesse L. <jlu...@ui...>]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:57:57 -0400
Youness Alaoui <kak...@ka...> wrote:

> Yes, I tried them both, that's the first thing that made me like etk
> more than ewl, basically because of stability, since the ewl_test
> kept crashing for many of the widgets, and it had a huge amount of
> glitches. But also the look and feel seemed to be better. Simple
> example is the paned window, I like the animated arrows that ewl
> doesn't have. About the API, I know the ETK API now, but I don't know
> much about the EWL API yet, I'll probably look into it and see how it
> goes.. Thanks again for this helpful info.
> 
> KaKaRoTo

Side note, but I think this is a large part of it... I know "that's
just the default theme" or whatever, but the default ETK configuration
personally feels much more consistent and good looking than EWL. EWL
(in the little experience I've had with it) crashes more, doesn't
respect my font preferences, and just has lots of interface issues
which are very tiny, and not that noticeable on their own, but add up
to just having a not very clean feel. ETK has put forth a lot of effort
into making things look good and look consistent (both with itself,
and keeping up with the default e17 theme), and I think that has a lot
to do with overall perceptions of the two libraries. (Disclaimer: I've
written ETK apps, but I've never done any EWL programming, so I really
have no idea how nice EWL is internally... I'm just giving my end-user's
perspective on things.)

Jesse