Re: Potential GNOME IDE

[Michael Ikey Doherty <michael i doherty intel com>]

On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 00:58 -0200, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> > We want an IDE built with GTK+. Not only does Netbeans look bad in
> > GNOME, it looks bad in every other platform, as well.
>
> Are you saying that Java apps can't be properly integrated with
> Gnome/GTK? really?
>
> http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/  << Last updated May 2013.
>
> I've had no major issues running Netbeans in Fedora.
>
> FC
That's not what is being said. Netbeans doesn't use the java-gnome
bindings, it uses Swing. That's entirely irrelevant to the comments.

This conversation has.. swung.. towards a tangent. I believe what was
being discussed was the merits of a GNOME-specific IDE. I initially
suggested Eclipse RCP, but it is a rather bulky measure.

The GNOME Builder project seems a sufficient start, and true GNOME
integration seems to be the aim here. Java is not suited to this task by
virtue of being cross-platform. Even with the java-gnome bindings, there
isn't native glib/gio access, etc. The primary language of GNOME's
foundations (i.e. the library underpinnings) is C. 

- Ikey

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