Re: RIP GUIs

["Peter Sommerfeld" <peter.sommerfeld@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Peter Sommerfeld a écrit :
> > The question is wether that ist still valid. There are more and more
> > applications without Std-GUIs, MediaPlayer, Games etc. and
> > people get used to it. And portability becames more and more
> > an issue too. How many people use GIMP for windows for instance ?
[...]...
> That's the old debate, eg. in AWT vs. Swing vs. SWT... Or Qt/wxWidgets 
> vs. most of the other frameworks.

Of course, but may be times are changing due to technical
progress: virtualisation, grafic capabilities etc. And the
GUIs are converging slowly. The user experiance on Mac,
Window,  Gnome and KDE is not that different anymore.
And the intenet requires even more standardisation.

> And BTW, I wonder why one should reinvent the wheel and make yet another 
> GUI framework based on yet another graphical interface...

Portability is the issue and "to make it better" :-))

As said before: the topic is probably to general for this list.

my 2 cent

Peter