[Mono-dev] Mono-devel-list Digest, Vol 96, Issue 26

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Apr 26, 2013, at 9:45 AM, James Bellinger <james at illusorystudios.com> wrote:
> Other than that it's really very usable. [On Windows, at least.]

So on the one platform for which it doesn't use it's own theming and instead uses the platform theming (it uses WinAPI ~directly), it looks good.

Great.

That also happens to be the platform which has it's own native System.Windows.Forms implementation, so I'm not entirely sure what Mono is buying you there, except possibly a zero-install app environment (no need to install .NET).

EVERYWHERE ELSE (Linux, OS X), it looks like ass.

(Please, for the love of $DEITY, do not use WinForms for new projects with any notions of being cross-platform, unless WinForms is a "pluggable" front-end with other front-ends available. The fact that such a "pluggable front end" architecture also makes the app amenable to Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS is a happy coincidence. ;-)

 - Jon