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Re: Swing and other free GUIs (KDE?)



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Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 07:43:47AM -0700, 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).
> 
> What about SWT?  I've used it under both gij and from gcj-compiled code
for
> some simple tests.
> 

SWT is great, but that doesn't help all the Swing applications, and there's
a few things Swing can do that SWT can't.

Alex.

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