Re: GnatBench (from GPL edition)

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:32:50 +0000, John McCabe wrote:

> GPS may be a showcase for GTKAda but, on Windows, I don't think it
> does GTK+ any favours. Look at the screenshot at
> 
> https://libre.adacore.com/gps/img/gps_800x600.jpg
> 
> Does that, to you, match up with the phrase  "Same modern GUI
> available on all platforms " you can find at
> https://libre.adacore.com/gps/main.html?
To me the answer is plainly
> no - that's the sort of GUI you'd be unlucky to get on Windows 3.1!

Hmm, I don't see that. Do you mean ugly window decoration elements and
cheap icons? Because otherwise GPS just follows MS Visual Studio design.
The decorations can be changed using a GTK+ RC file. I wonder why AdaCore
didn't do that.

But where AdaCore took time and didn't copy from MS, GPS looks pretty
good.
For example, graphical indication of error locations left of the editor
window is a great idea.

IMO the problems with GPS lie elsewhere. I mean poor design of GTK+ and
GDB.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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