"Dimitrie O. Paun" dimi@intelliware.ca writes:
No, I'm not kidding nor drinking. WIND has nothing to do with copying the XP UI. As I was explaining in my message, we can have our UI look like BlueCurve or what have you. WIND is all about the API. And yeah, the Windows API is not perfect, but there's no perfect API. And thing is, 99% of programmers out there know Win32, not GKT+. And I think the Win32 API is not that bad that it should be dropped, given the investment level that the human race has put into it. Quite frankly, I think the Win32 API si not that bad for UI tasks, it certainly proved to work OK for so many years. And if you want to talk about ugly, you should start with GTK, not Wine :) Not to mention the fact that I think our widgets are better, more polished, and I think more featureful.
I strongly disagree. The Win32 API may not be so bad in the abstract (though I'd dispute that too), but it's a very poor choice for a Unix toolkit. It exposes way too many low-level details that don't have an equivalent on Unix. If you want a cross platform toolkit you should use a higher level one that abstracts a lot more of the platform details; and if you don't care about other platforms then you should use a Unix native toolkit. I don't think we would be doing anybody a favor by encouraging the use of Wine for new Linux developments.