Re: gEDA-user: pcb printing

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is there any reason why this Win32 effort isn't / can't be merely
> adding developer time to ensure that the GTK code works well for its
> Win32 port, and adding native code as required to improve the
> integration / feel of the app for Windows users?

Because, as Mike puts it, GTK under windows doesn't look like windows,
doesn't act like windows, and just confuses users.

> Aside from the exercise to verify the decoupling of the HID API,
> (and at the risk of being controversial), what are the tangible
> reasons for the Lesstif HID's continued existence?

It looks different, acts different, etc.  If it were me, I'd get rid
of the GTK hid - it's the least maintainable for us.

> Either GTK, QT, or WxWidgets would give us a single toolkit, single
> code-base HID with true cross platform portability to Unix, Win32
> and MacOS.

And it would look like and act like none of the above.


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