From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: silly question : how long would it take to make SN Gnome-complian t?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 07:05:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00419.html

What advantages are we going to get from rewritting
the GUI in wxWindows?

I think that it should be relatively easy to add most
of the missing feature to Tk.

One thing that we do plan on doing to remove Tix and
start using BLT, but this won't happen until after
the next major release.

Upgrading the version of Tcl/Tk the SN uses we also
buy us extra features, I'm hoping that we can do this
in sync with switch over to BLT.

Comments?

 Ian

William Gacquer wrote:
> 
> Why not? wxWindows has some good extensions. One of them is OGL, the
> "Objects Graphics Library" that allows to create "Rose-like GUIs" is a few
> minutes.
> 
> But that would require a lot of work to move from TK to wxWindows, even if
> it's worth the pain.
> 
> William
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tee Y Teoh [ mailto:tee_yong.teoh@alcatel.com ]
> > Sent: mardi 19 septembre 2000 15:32
> > Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: silly question : how long would it take to make SN
> > Gnome-complian t?
> >
> >
> > Ian Roxborough wrote:
> >
> > > Maintain two UIs, one GTK compliant, one for the rest
> > > of the work, just won't fly.
> >
> > What about porting to wxWindows ? wxWindows is support on
> > MS-Windows, Unix/Motif,
> > Unix/GTK,  and Mac (with work going on for OS/2). wxWindows
> > is  written in C++
> > and has a Python binding. See http://www.wxwindows.org/ for more info.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tee Teoh
> >