[Mono-list] GTKsharp 3

[Stifu]

Err, you can't do that.


Daniel Lo Nigro wrote
> 
> 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@> 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&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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