From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Gacquer To: Ian Roxborough 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 07:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <5D2A198567EED311BD0F009027A25C873C8367@SRVMAIL-ANN> X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00420.html > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Roxborough [ mailto:irox@redhat.com ] > Sent: mardi 19 septembre 2000 16:05 > Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com > Subject: Re: silly question : how long would it take to make SN > Gnome-complian t? > > > > What advantages are we going to get from rewritting > the GUI in wxWindows? Integration with gtk and/or win32? > > I think that it should be relatively easy to add most > of the missing feature to Tk. I am not a Tk expert but I believe in what you said :-) > > 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? > iTcl, iTk, Tix, BLT, etc.. that's a lot of extensions.... Nevertheless, I will trust what you'll chose! > 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 > > > >