[Mono-list] Windows Forms...wah

[Miguel de Icaza]

> Anyway, implementing windows.forms might help some windows guy port
his
> application on Linux. However, to the Linux user it will look too
> "windowish" and it might cause localization issues, etc.

Not really, you can always patch winelib to use your toolkit rendering
primitives so it "looks" native.

With Gnome moving to customizable keybindings (with Windows being the
default).  I do not really see a "feel" problem either.

> I think the original intent of the mono project is being lost. Miguel,
> please correct me if I'm wrong. The original intent was to get a nice
> set of development tools to write Gnome/Linux application with.

My objectives with Mono are different than other's peoples objectives. 
I want language independence and reusable components on Unix, which has
historically been something that we did with Gnome.  Mono offers a new
platform to achieve these objectives.

But Mono is not what I chose it to be, Mono is what the community
chooses it to be, and the community has very different interests: from
production needs, to training needs to research needs.  Ximian will
contribute to Gtk#, because that is where we see ourselves building and
supporting applications in the future. 

If I had more resources we would be developing every bit of the .NET
framework, and if I had even more, I would develop a lot of new things
on top of it, and with even more I would build a complete system on it. 
The survey though, points out that most people are interested in
Windows.Forms, and very few are interested in Gtk#/Qt#.

Miguel