From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 12:10:51 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 E557B16A468 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 12:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from p28.ich-19.com (fa.ea.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.234.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C676413C4C8 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 12:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghirai@ghirai.com) Received: from [89.122.141.115] (helo=Unknown-00-16-36-ae-62-05.lan) by p28.ich-19.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ht03p-00054B-1U for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 06:40:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:40:03 +0300 From: Ghirai X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.99.3) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1932362406.20070529144003@ghirai.com> To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <92bcbda50705290356g70381411m185d9067fa1c3c60@mail.gmail.com> References: <465B86F9.3000001@voidmain.net> <465BFD6F.5090507@netfence.it> <92bcbda50705290356g70381411m185d9067fa1c3c60@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - p28.ich-19.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ghirai.com Cc: Subject: Re: Java on the BSD Desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Ghirai List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:10:52 -0000 Hello n, Tuesday, May 29, 2007, 1:56:39 PM, you wrote: >> 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, I would say Python would be more suitable (smaller, faster), plus it's installed by default on quite a few *nix OS. -- Best regards, Ghirai.