18 May
2011
18 May
'11
3:29 p.m.
On 18 May 2011 19:25, Tom Murphy
I'd give three reasons for disagreeing: 1. Developing a complete GUI has been a low priority up until now, ...
I don't think that not having something as desireable good GUI suited anyone much, nor has it actually been a low priority - a lot of work has gone into the tools we have (and those that are now bit-rotted). It's more a case of an "industrial" level of effort is needed to develop and maintain a GUI solution. Java's Swing and Microsoft's Dot.Net had teams of programmers building them as loss leaders to establish their platforms. Similarly even GTK has had huge amount of resources invested in it.