[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

[Adam Treat]

On Friday 20 September 2002 11:26 am, Christoph Wille wrote:
> I'm on the #develop team (and I know which UI frameworks are in
> development)
>
> Having that said: we look at portability differently than other MS .NET
> developers (which are the majority), we are planning for it. But most
> developer don't. They don't care unless it is as simple as switching a
> compiler switch (like we are supporting Mono inside #develop). If they have
> to rewrite the application, at a minimum they will think twice and abandon
> the idea a second later.
>
> You could start a poll for MS .NET programmers: given those four UI
> frameworks, which one would you choose to write apps when you'd plan for
> running on Windows and Linux? Guess what... next to no one would care about
> any framework other than Windows Forms.

Perhaps.  But this is not a problem since we'll have the winelib port of SWF 
and for those who will care and want to use a nicer framework... well they'll 
have choices.  The best of all worlds!

> Windows Forms is important to get MS .NET developers to use the Mono
> platform.
>
> I was only commenting on the part "If there is a better GUI toolkit and it
> could run on most platforms, most people will use it instead of WinForm".

I agree. SWF is important to get developers to _start_ using the Mono 
platform.  My guess is once they grow comfortable with it, many of them will 
want to know what all the hubbub is with our toolkits and we'll see a slow 
but steady migration.  That is my hope anyway.