From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 11:24:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4669C16A47B for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:24:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082E813C44B for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 14so568217nzn for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 04:24:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uCvdXyL3tEURPgzj6jezlomUfFPc3//8upst31qM7z/vp+/VbHIMU2gEOADzk/Pl3Ds2rawHroyr6uw7/Qbj18Odz115zdZiskyxrbnmYtTEkXSUa4B6nHZiJs3Z2phTqxcALB0KhtKC9jLoaTN8JczS9aFZNVkL+aIz2wJ3Em8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DE23ZHnd1eQywCeXuyuL1ooKIGtURpHSYAE1nBq/qdZ0rv+S9d1NHk6RSRgAkOsBaGcNQJxrx/0WZ/QAOj9zC/LnAPjg+u4zNp5159oUeQK2kWZin3DEcYaD2qDDeSmEkYTgi2mmF7rUePa7J3z70CeH5mXjJkXuMe9c+iF7ULA= Received: by 10.114.168.1 with SMTP id q1mr3372359wae.1180436199196; Tue, 29 May 2007 03:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.208.7 with HTTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 03:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92bcbda50705290356g70381411m185d9067fa1c3c60@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:56:39 +0200 From: "n j" To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <465BFD6F.5090507@netfence.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <465B86F9.3000001@voidmain.net> <465BFD6F.5090507@netfence.it> Cc: Subject: Re: Java on the BSD Desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:24:18 -0000 > I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is > just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk > frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a > good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about > java as the de-facto gui standard on the BSD desktop. For what it's worth, I think Java should be far more present in the FreeBSD at least as far as desktop is concerned and it's a good alternative to Qt/Tk/Gtk for GUI applications. Java is a fine serious programming language whose strongest selling point a long time ago ceased to be "write once, run anywhere". Just my .02, -- Nino