[sldev] Decoupling UI widget set from rest of viewer (Re: Qt for the viewer)

[Rob Lanphier]

On 7/15/08 1:54 PM, JB Kraft wrote:
> Qt is ok, but personally I find WxWidgets much easier to deal with. 
> MOC is a strange creature. That said, I rather like the current ui 
> tools. If as much time were put into a good refactoring and 
> decoupling, making the current ui tools into an independant library as 
> it would take to port to Qt or Wx, I think that would be a very useful 
> toolkit for cross-plat GL work. Perhaps that's generous though ;)

Last I remembered, Alissa Sabre had done some early work for using Gtk 
for text input, out of frustration with the current UI's lack of support 
for things that matter greatly for non-Latin character sets.  I don't 
know what the status of that work is (or remember the issue number in 
JIRA), or if the current UI has improved to enough to make it less of an 
issue, but I think she may have some well-informed thoughts and 
suggestions about decoupling.

Rob