GNOME One Step Closer To Using .NET

fader writes: "On gnome.org is an article indicating that there are now GTK bindings for C#. Basically, when combined with MONO, this means that you should be able to write at least some rudimentary .NET applications for GNOME." Update: 04/12 00:30 GMT by T : Hetz points out that Qt already has this capability (also in Alpha): here's a link to the Qt-CSharp project, and a proof-of-concept screenshot as well.

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buttonhook release of gtk-sharp still needs Win32

[ubiquitin]

The gtk-sharp project only runs on Win32:
To hack on Gtk#, you still need a Win32 machine with the .Net Framework installed, as the binding cannot be compiled on linux yet.

Personally, I'd rather see Ximian assist and support Tor Lillquist's efforts to port GTK to Win32. The port of GIMP to Windows took painfully long, in part because the team working on it is so small.

before everyone freaks out...

[Panix]

The selection of the title of this article is very disappointing and misleading. I wish that slashdot would have done a bit more research before posting this article.

To clarify - noone has stated in any way that GNOME will *ever* use .NET. It just happens that Ximian is implementing the ECMA Standard for .NET and a few other pieces to offer compatibility with some .NET applications, and to provide a better platform for them to write their own applications with.

What was released yesterday is called GTK-Sharp, which is simply a set of language bindings for GTK to enable people to use C# to write GTK programs. Now, when the python bindings to GTK were released, it would be equally foolish to state that "The GIMP is one step closer to being written in Python." Think before you post articles, please.

As far as the announcement itself is concerned, I am very pleased. I am intrigued by the possibility of a sanely designed cross-platform language independent solution for developing applications and web services. I really like the idea of a common class library and the common intermediate language. The guys at Ximian are doing some great work. Keep it up!

Cool. Qt supports it too.

[JabberWokky]

KDE might not plan on basing anything on .NET, but there have been C# Qt bindings since March 17th. They were released the same day as the KDE 3 Python bindings. There's also info for the KDE 3 Ruby bindings on that page and upcoming KDE 3 Perl bindings. Plus of course there's the standard C++, Java, Objective C and plain old C bindings for KDE and Qt.

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Evan