[postgis-users] GTK/Gnome GIS Client

[Scott Ellington]

Well, I can think of a few reasons:

-A unified look and feel across the desktop.  

-Utilize Gnome features:  This could include features like drag and
drop, where a shapefile could be dragged off a folder and onto the map
like ArcMap.

-Integration with other applications.  Including (perhaps) reusable
components/objects.

-Development in the native toolkit/window manager could give performance
improvements.

-I like Gnome :)

In terms of it being wasteful, redundancy is a part of open source
software development.  It seems to me that competition helps all
projects in that groups learn from each other.  

Also, IF this we were written in .NET than the base libraries could be
used acrossed platforms, toolkits, and operating systems as well.

Scott

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:37 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> FYI, uDig (udig.refractions.net) uses the GTK+ widget set under Linux  
> (or, rather SWT does, which uDig uses).  If GTK is a big deal :)  I  
> think writing one GIS per widget set is a little wasteful and think  
> the Eclipse RCP approach is a nice compromise.  qgis compiles  
> everywhere now too.  Why the gtk/gnome hangup?
> 
> P
> 
> On 8-Aug-05, at 5:20 PM, Abe Gillespie wrote:
> 
> > Well, I for one think we could get together and make a great Gtk# /
> > Mono GIS app with the professional quality of something like
> > MonoDevelop.  I would love to get involved with this if someone is
> > willing to start up the logistical work.  I have personally never
> > gotten directly involved with an OSS project and I think I'm ready to.
> >
> > My suggestion would be to base it off the C# MapScript API.  Not only
> > does it have most everything we need built in ... built it will keep
> > things pretty unified.
> >
> > -Abe
> >
> > On 8/8/05, sherman at mrcc.com <sherman at mrcc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:04:14PM -0400, Scott Ellington wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think everything should be unified around the platform.  If I was
> >>> using KDE I would run QGIS.  It is really is a completely different
> >>> architecture and I have already invested a lot in Gnome/Gtk.  I  
> >>> think
> >>> there is a niche to fill for Gnome GIS.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Just to be clear, in case there is any question, QGIS is NOT a KDE  
> >> application.
> >>
> >> -gary
> >> --------------------------
> >> Gary Sherman
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