Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts

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

Hi,

>Yes, but Dreamweaver is a very large and complex app and I don't think
>Java-GNOME could handle it yet (non-working graphics primitives for
>example).
>  
>
I think that's another reason to choose this kind of apps. GTK+ is so 
featured because it was driven by the development of GIMP. Gnome become 
powerfull because it had to support the development of Gnomeric, and 
later Evolution. The Linux kernel is powerfull to support Samba, Apache 
and big databases. See KDE and Konquerror, Kdevelop or Koffice.

Java-Gnome lacks a big, usefull app to prove its usability ando to put 
pressure to "fill the gaps". See how Eclipse is driving the adoption of 
SWT... That's sad, because SWT is "yet another UI toolkit" when there 
are already too many of them. The cross-plataform and cross-language 
nature of GTK+ could make it the only UI toolkit you've ever need, but 
it got few users outside Linux and Gnome developers. :-(


[]s, Fernando Lozano