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Microsoft Open-Sources WPF, WinForms and WinUI

posted by takyon on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:10PM   Printer-friendly
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Rich writes:

In a surprise move at the Build 2018 conference, Microsoft have announced that three key components of the Windows user interface are now open-sourced. Kevin Gallo, MS VP for the Windows Developer Platform sums it up in a blog entry.

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI at Microsoft Connect(); 2018

The newly opened-up components are critical for writing desktop applications and have so far been Windows-only. Based on C# and the .NET framework, especially WPF is generally considered to be reasonably good. Interest from beyond the Windows ecosystem might appear: when will we see ports to the Linux and Mac platforms, and what would it mean to their platform-specific toolkits GTK and Cocoa?

WPF = Windows Presentation Foundation

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  • (Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:43PM (3 children)

    by pvanhoof (4638) on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:43PM (#770292) Homepage

    Just FYI. The vast majority of x.org (Linux, BSD, etc) desktop applications are written in either Gtk+ (with GNOME libs or without) or Qt (with KDE libs or without). Not Motif. Most firms that pay you to write Linux desktop applications will pay you to write Qt (and/with QML) code. Not Motif, not Gtk+ (not anymore, since Nokia once bought Trolltech it's all Qt in the consultancy industry - at least here in EU).

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:50PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @09:50PM (#770297)

    Don't tell me shit I already know. What part of "Motif is good enough" don't you understand?

    • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:57AM (1 child)

      by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday December 06 2018, @02:57AM (#770450) Journal

      Motif? You PINO!* Real programmers use Xlib!

      * Programmer In Name Only.

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:58PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday December 06 2018, @07:58PM (#770819) Journal

        Can we compromise on Athena widgets?

        --
        The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.