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

["Joe Smith" <ohcho@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Philippe Marschall" <kustos@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> You probably work with non-Windows and for non-commercial s/w.

It's not what I think or what you think!
If you are in commercial arena, you have to compete against
other native platform competitors. When there are plenty of them,
users are not simply interested in ugly looking Swing systems or alikes.
That's reality! Please don't be too religious about technology.
After all, we are writting s/w for others. If they are not interested in,
what's the point for wasting your time?

Note that if you are writing casual-end user GUI *enterprise* s/w, it's the
Windows users who will pay the bill, not Unix/Linux or Mac.

Regards.


>> Otherwise, you would see differently.
>
> Then please enlight me and tell me, what the problem with Synthetica,
> Alloy, JGoodies, Office is?
>
> Do you really think they look crappy?
>
> Are they not "native"? Then what is native:
> - classic gray Win95?
> - themed WinXP? (which may look like anything)
> - Office?
> - that weblike look called Windows Froms IIRC
> - what HyperSnapDX uses and VS 2005 does too IIRC
> - MS Anti PUS?
> If that is the problem, then am I right to assume that
> org.eclipse.swt.custom and Eclipse Forms are crap that will leave you
> unemployed?
>
> Is SAP just a bunch if idiots if they brand their apps?
> http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/sce/
>
> Or is your boss just an idiot that doesn't allow you to use them?
>
>