Re: Swing and other free GUIs (KDE?)

[Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org>]

Dalibor Topic wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
> 
> --- Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> 
>> At issue is not convenience, but speed. Swing is horribly slow, so any
>> effort to speed it up seems worthy to me.
> 
> Just do it ;) Try getting in touch with the author of the gcj native swing
> implementation, and see if you can get it to run with any of the free VMs.
If
> you can put it up somewhere, I could take a shot at integrating it into
kaffe,
> which has an Xlib based AWT, if the license permits it (kaffe is GPL).

I have no idea who the author is, so how am I supposed to do that? All I
remember is a mention of this thing.

>> Having a pure Java Swing implementation to fall back on is a good idea
IMO,
>> but having a pure Java Swing implementation at the expense of a faster
>> native implementation when the latter is available seems foolish.
> 
> I think that it's better to develop the fallback first, and then, with all
the
> acquired knowledge of Swing's internals, build an optimized native
> implementation.

You could do that.

> But since I'm not going to do it, at least not in the next couple of years
(I'm
> busy enough with merging in stuff into kaffe's class libraries), don't let
my
> concerns prevent you from doing it. This is open source/free software
> development after all, you can do whatever you want, and if it turns out
to be
> cool, I'd be very glad to link to it ;)

What about the concerns of that being way over my head? :P

Alex.