[MonoDevelop] Comments on Stetic GU designer

[Mario Carrión]

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 22:12 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
Hi

> > Currently, that Container isn't shown in the Containers list and it
> > won't (probally) be due to disadvantages commented earlier, you may
> > request that feature to Core MonoDevelop developers to add it in future
> > releases, however I don't support adding that behavior.
> 
> Well, I believe that we eventually need to support it, it is just a
> matter of time and resources.
> 
> Tables and boxes are probably fine for many applications that will
> target many different devices and many different languages, but many
> people want tool that they can use to create a quick application, and
> not necessarily something that will have the same reach or be run under
> hundreds of different scenarios, they need something that works.
> 
> Its like claiming that we should not have shell scripts and everything
> should be scripted instead with Python or C# because they are "the right
> way".   They might the right way for a different scale of problem, but
> you should consider that not everyone has the same spectrum of uses that
> you do.
Quite right, however newcomer developers from platforms where default
GUI designers (or IDEs or whatever) allow absolute control/widget
positioning will miss that nice behavior due to many of them don't know
their existence, adding an "information message" in MD when using
Gtk.Fixed may be a solution to tell newcomer developers that other
options exists.

Cheers
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Mario Carrión