[Mono-list] GTKsharp 3

[Ian Norton]

How do you expect to put anything on the screen or read the mouse, 
keyboard etc without eventually using a native toolkit :)

XWT is very cool, not 100% working for me yet but a very good start.

On 11/09/2012 16:34, Stifu wrote:
> 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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