[CREATE] Cross Software UI

[Brian Vidal castillo]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:15:24 -0400, Sven Langkamp  
<sven.langkamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can't choose a programming language as this isn't really a software
> project. You can specify a HIG, but you can't code a UI and put them on  
> top
> of all these projects.
> Projects that depend on the same toolkit might have some shared lib, but
> that doesn't work for all. In the end you have to do the work in every
> project with the specific toolkit/language.

Maybe... but one of the long-term goals is to makes them use the same  
toolkit. Researching first which covers the needs. It's not very smart to  
have a "Design Studio" collaborating between thems and have a different  
toolkit.

There are amazing features on QT and on wxWidgets, also on GTK+, but maybe  
a common toolkit would be simpler to develop and expand later.

What I mean, is that almost every design/media app is on C or C++. One of  
the goals of the project is proviode a common language to talking. But  
that's for the future.

It's faster develop on a high-level language like Java or C#, than on a  
simpler one like C, C++. hat's why Vala was choosed: it's O*S (Open  
Source) and it's a mask on top of C. Has an excelent performance and a low  
learning curve.

For now, specifications are the target. Feel free to open bug reports to  
start working on it. Surely projects will join us later, by now, we have  
to think and research.

> Since most of these apps are cross-platform "Linux Design Studio" is not  
> an appropriate name.

I can't agree more, but this started a year ago and it needed a name and a  
vision, so, Linux was the platform targeted. Anyway, think on it as a code  
name (a large code name isn't it?)

Also, LDS stands for Last Days Saints, so, the name really needs a re-name.

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