[Mono-list] GTKsharp 3

[Daniel Lo Nigro]

How would you use native widgets without using bindings of some sort?

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:19 AM, 殷启聪 <seamlikok at gmail.com> 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 at free.fr>:
> > 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&gt
> ;
> >> 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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