I love Gnome and GTK
by
bonch
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· Score: 4, Interesting
...but when are they going to just go full-on GTK# running on a Mono framework?:D
Beat Microsoft at its own.NET game.
Re:I love Gnome and GTK
by
aldoman
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· Score: 4, Interesting
But how long do we as an OSS community stop very new and exciting development in the premise of 'it doesn't work on 0.5% of systems'?!
Linux _desperately_ needs to have a working, easy to use RAD environment. Something as simple, or simpler than Visual Basic. I want to be able to create a simple Linux application by dragging and dropping some form elements onto a page and double clicking on a button and typing a few lines of simple code and have it all working.
Glade is good, but it's not easy enough.
Mono has the possibility of bringing this to fruition. I want to see sharpdevelop making good GTK# apps in a few hours.
My thanks as usual to the people who build GTK and Pango. I guess that I have not yet really learned to appreciate the people behind the curtain, the GLib people, but since they make GTK possible, thanks to them as well.
Currently GTK is one of my favorite toolkits. The reason: Pango. I use multiple languages in my documents, as well as the compose button, and all GTK apps handle it perfectly (I use utf-8 of course). And although the input methods are somewhat redundant architecture that should be lower than the level of the toolkit IMHO, GTK input methods are the best, especially when combined with UIM.
Thank again to all the people involved.
BTW: is there a keyboard shortcut to switching input methods. UIM has it, but I sometimes need to switch to cyrillic translit (can not use ru phonetic since the keyboard is in dvorak) from Chinese and back, and that is a bit painful?
-- badness 10000
Re:They're improving the file dialogs...
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flithm
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Just so people don't get the wrong idea about Composite or Xorg, on my relatively modern (but by no means uber) computer xorg + composite + translucency + drop shadows doesn't slow it down one bit. In fact with all the effects on the windows actually appear to slide around smoother than they did before, although I'm sure this some kind of psychological effect.
Also of note is that I have one graphics card driving two monitors, and it's still not an issue.
Don't be afraid to try Composite on Xorg! And if you run into problems submit bug reports! Xorg has great promise. Let's all help to make it as good as it could be (and no I'm in no way related to the Xorg project. I just think eye-candy is where its at).
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...but when are they going to just go full-on GTK# running on a Mono framework? :D
.NET game.
Beat Microsoft at its own
My thanks as usual to the people who build GTK and Pango. I guess that I have not yet really learned to appreciate the people behind the curtain, the GLib people, but since they make GTK possible, thanks to them as well.
Currently GTK is one of my favorite toolkits. The reason: Pango. I use multiple languages in my documents, as well as the compose button, and all GTK apps handle it perfectly (I use utf-8 of course). And although the input methods are somewhat redundant architecture that should be lower than the level of the toolkit IMHO, GTK input methods are the best, especially when combined with UIM.
Thank again to all the people involved.
BTW: is there a keyboard shortcut to switching input methods. UIM has it, but I sometimes need to switch to cyrillic translit (can not use ru phonetic since the keyboard is in dvorak) from Chinese and back, and that is a bit painful?
badness 10000
Just so people don't get the wrong idea about Composite or Xorg, on my relatively modern (but by no means uber) computer xorg + composite + translucency + drop shadows doesn't slow it down one bit. In fact with all the effects on the windows actually appear to slide around smoother than they did before, although I'm sure this some kind of psychological effect.
Also of note is that I have one graphics card driving two monitors, and it's still not an issue.
Don't be afraid to try Composite on Xorg! And if you run into problems submit bug reports! Xorg has great promise. Let's all help to make it as good as it could be (and no I'm in no way related to the Xorg project. I just think eye-candy is where its at).