[Mono-devel-list] drawing

[Miguel de Icaza]

> I see that the Drawing namespace works via gdi+ on both Windows and
> Linux so I was wondering why we don't just
> develop controls using that Library instead of relying on gtk+ which
> must be installed on Windows?

We do not depend on Gtk+ for Windows.Forms, the default uses the Win32
API, and on Linux it happens to use Wine as a library that implements
Win32

there is *one* implementation of Windows.Forms on CVS that does use Gtk#
on Linux.