Re: GNUstep on MS Windows

[Alexander Malmberg]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
[snip]
> A lot of people I talked to miss the Windows native look and feel.
> Currently GNUstep draws it's own Widgets.
> 
> A better

For some definition of 'better'.

> way here would be what I call the SWT approach: SWT, the Standard
> Widget Toolkit for Java is part of the Eclipse Project. What makes it
> outstanding is the use of native widget functionality in contrast to the
> SWING approach which - like GNUstep - draws the widgets by itself.
[snip]

This approach is wildly incompatible with gnustep-gui/-back's approach,
though. An AppKit implementation that maps down to native windows
widgets might be useful, but gnustep-gui isn't that implementation.
Someone would have to start gnustep-guiwin32 or something. :)

- Alexander Malmberg