[Mono-list] Cross-platform GUI.

[David Burnett]

Dan Winship wrote:
 >They allegedly have cross-platform widgets, but
 >Thunderbird and FireFox just suck on OS X

In your opinion they suck not mine. Yes, I'm posting this
from Thunderbird because all the NNTP clients I've tried that follow
the Apple HIG are a load of rubbish, so I use Thunderbird for that
and its only natural I use it for email too.
Before Thunderbird came along I was using PAN with all the problems of 
using an X11 app on OSX, starting up X11,lack of drag and drop 
interaction, fonts with no aliasing (bad GTK compile), limited clipboard 
etc, rather than using the other apps. After using Thunderbird for five 
minutes I did not even notice where it didn't follow Apples HIG.


In the end it comes down to one simple decision, would you
rather use

i)a piece of software with out perfect adherence to Apples HIG
(GTK# native)
or
ii)a piece of software with out perfect adherence to Apples HIG and 
limited clipboard, no drag and drop etc (GTK# via X11)
or
iii)no app at all ? .

I would go for i) every time, and lets face it not many non Mac 
developers are ever going to try Cocoa# unless the GNUStep guys take an 
interest :-)

Dave