From: "Albert L. Wagner" Date: 2002-01-23T00:13:38+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT & long] Re: GUI APIs michael libby wrote: > > (on Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:39:17 +0900) Albert Wagner > wrote: > > windows-only users have the parasitic mentality inherited from Micros**t > > of waiting for someone else to do it, or if they do it, making it > > proprietary and charging for it. It is extremely rude to extract a quote out of context with no indication that it once had a context. At least reply to the post you are clipping from or indicate in some visual manner that the quote is partial. > > > I don't think there can be one standard GUI for both unix and windows > > > that will satisfy the windows community. > > Duh! Here you have two quotes from two different writers. The one you are actually replying to is unnamed. At least the quote levels are visible. > But I very much like the idea of a universal API that uses a native widget > set to perform. I would use such a beast. It would also benefit Linux-only > developers/users, since it means that there is no fight about Tk, Qt, or > gtk+ to be had. You simply use the API and let the user decide or default > to the toolkit they're using for the other applications on their screen. I too like the power and extendability of Tk. But if you have really explored the features of various toolkits, then you know that such a "universal" API is impossible except by cutting out the heart of widgets like TkText to conform to the weaker text editors of other GUIs. Anyone who has seriously examined what is involved in such a project knows that the compromises required are intolerable.