[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Swing port is coming - Lotus assists IBM

[stephan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stephan Michels)]

Clemens Eisserer wrote:

> > A Swing port of SWT: worst of both worlds. brrr...

Yeah! What a stupid idea... 

> Why? I only see benefits, you are not forced to use this port - but its 
> great to have this opportunity! I think the native-for-any-price paradigm 
> of SWT is what makes it so unsucessful (there are only a hand ful 
> non-eclipse apps, compared to thousands of swing applications).

Thousands of swing applications?! 

> btw. I assume you've never tried the GTK2 port of SWT. Thats really worst 
> of voth worlds, very slow and the limmiting api of swt.

I use the GTK version of Eclipse day by day, and it works like a charme
even on my powerbook, which is five years old.