[Mono-list] GTKsharp 3

[Stifu]

XWT is still a set of bindings. It calls native code / GUI toolkits
underneath. So that's not what he was asking for.
I guess there is just not enough money / motivation behind having a
fully-managed GUI toolkit. On the other hand, Mono WinForms is one,
technically.


Slide wrote
> 
> There is this one that is being developed https://github.com/mono/xwt
> and will be the foundation of MonoDevelop in the future from what I
> understand.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:19 AM, 殷启聪 <seamlikok@> wrote:
>> Why there's no any cross-platform GUI toolkit that's written natively
>> in C#? I'm tired of using bindings. Is it possible to develop a C# GUI
>> toolkit that's OpenGL accelerated (like WPF and Clutter),
>> cross-platform (like wxWidgets and Qt) and uses native widgets in
>> different desktop environment? Then GTK+, Qt etc. will be used as low
>> level components.
>> 2012/9/11 Stifu <stifu@>:
>>> The most recent bit of news I've read about GTK# 3:
>>>
>>> http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Towards-GTK-3-0-tp4650597.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel Hughes wrote
>>>>
>>>> GTK 3 was released 10 Feb 2011. That's a long time ago.
>>>>
>>>> During that time .net bindings have failed to eventuate. Information on
>>>> what has been happening has been very hard to find, despite a large
>>>> number
>>>> of .net applications on linux using these bindings.
>>>>
>>>> As the author of an opensource application dependent on these bindings
>>>> I
>>>> find this lack of information very concerning. And I'm starting to ask
>>>> myself questions like, Am I now dependent of a dead or dieing library?
>>>>
>>>> Banshee was removed from the default ubuntu install, officially because
>>>> of
>>>> lack of GTK 3 support.
>>>>
>>>> I have the following questions:
>>>>
>>>> Where is the source code for GTK 3 support?
>>>> As far as I can establish the GTK sharp code is hosted here:
>>>> https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp<https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp/branches>
>>>> However there is no branch in there labelled as GTK3
>>>>
>>>> Who supports GTK sharp?
>>>> If it is community maintained, who are the main contributors?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a projected or planned release date for GTK 3 support?
>>>> Developers dependent on GTK sharp need this information in order to
>>>> plan
>>>> the future of there applications.
>>>>
>>>> If GTK sharp is really dying then application developers dependent on
>>>> it
>>>> need to know, so they can either contribute to it or move there
>>>> applications on to something else.
>>>>
>>>> If the bindings are struggling, how come there has been no call
>>>> for contributors, or at least transparent information about what is
>>>> going
>>>> on. Rather then the current back whole of information.
>>>>
>>>> Recently ubuntu held an app competition, it was hugely successful and
>>>> while
>>>> it was on people where asking questions like this:
>>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/154373/use-primary-toolbar-with-mono
>>>> And all we could do was advice that they use another language.
>>>>
>>>> If we lose GTK# bindings where does that leave mono on desktop linux?
>>>> We
>>>> have no QT bindings, no clutter bindings and no GTK# 3 bindings. in
>>>> sort
>>>> we
>>>> have no bindings available (by that I mean packaged in debian or
>>>> similar)
>>>> for the latest version of any native linux GUI tool kit.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to say this again, mono developers cannot use the latest
>>>> version
>>>> of any native linux GUI tool kit.
>>>>
>>>> Now maybe the GTK# bindings are alive and well and are about to issue a
>>>> release. However if that is true then the developers have a lot of room
>>>> for
>>>> improvement with there communications.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Daniel Hughes
>>>>
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