[ros-general] KDE for ReactOS
Robert Köpferl
rob at koepferl.de
Mon Oct 17 00:11:47 UTC 2005
Sorry, but technically it seems you have no clue.
This gui stuff is difficult and not as easy as putting gt and k+ togehter.
Think of event handling not just painting. Or why is Ooo still without
Cocoa UI?
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
> On Monday 17 October 2005 02:01, Mikko Tikkanen wrote:
>
>>Except that KDE or GNOME isn't really a Windows GUI nor can it run
>>Windows software (presuming on the applications you mentioned)...
>
>
> Still this idea could be usefull after some rethinking.
> ReactOS has its own implementation of win32 apps' GUI. On the other hand, we
> do have GTK+, Qt and some more crossplatform GUIs implemented on win32
> platform. So we can pass all the widgets stuff to one of them and drop the
> windows-native GUI (which is still slow and buggy). This would unify the GUI
> of the system and make the system more stable while easier configurable. This
> will let us use any popular X11 environment (or give a choise to user).
> I think the preferable widget set would be GTK+ (because it's the most widely
> spread among alternative widget sets and its license is safe) and the
> preferable workspace would be GNOME (just because it's GTK+-based, popular
> and actively developed).
> Technically this approache means makeing all the Windows GUI-related libraries
> the wrappers to the GTK libraries.
> I think that such modification would be useful even without switching to some
> DE or WM from Linux world just because GTK is off and ready, while ReactOS's
> GUI is slow and buggy.
>
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