[Gtk-sharp-list] System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation equivalent

[Christopher David Howie]

On 09/07/2010 12:23 PM, Natalia Portillo wrote:
> The idea is to have a class toolkit independent. Asking Gdk.* is like
> referencing System.Windows.Forms (it is always available in Mono even
> if you don't use it to draw the windows) and taking the
> SystemInformation class.

Gdk is a cross-platform low-level abstraction of a windowing system.
It's probably the best you're going to get considering the information
you want.  If you are deploying your app to both Windows and Linux, you
can always abstract the information you want behind an interface and
supply one implementation for each platform -- one for Gdk and one for
Winforms.  Then, when you consider which UI to show, also consider which
implementation to use.

If you want a library-independent mechanism, then you're going to have
to resort to P/Invokes.  And that would be a worse situation.

> Anyway it is bad implemented on current 
> System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation class, my Linux box returns
> hades (hostname) instead of claunia.com (domain name).

https://bugzilla.novell.com/index.cgi

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