Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome Library

[<fer...@lo...>]

Hi,

> I'm used to develop with SWT for creating java application with native
> look&fell.
> I have two question:
> Is it possibile use gnome library with SWT without using Gtk library ?
> If this is true what are the advantages of Gtk library in comparison with
> SWT ?

SWT on Unix uses either Motif or SWT. If you run under Linux and get "native"
look and feel you are using GTK already.

Gnome is based on GTK. So there's no way to get Gnome features and not using
GTK. You can put a layer of software above Gnome and GTK, but not discarding GTK.

SWT uses GTK but has no other features for gnome integration. If you need this,
you need to expand SWT to use more Gnome APIs and widgets besides the ones
provided by GTK.

As SWT is a layer on top of GTK, using java-gnome should provide a little
better performance, besides access to extra gnome widgets not supported by SWT
today.


[]s, Fernando Lozano