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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:13:55 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt AT recycle DOT lbl DOT gov>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The new to do
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DJ -

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 04:46:29PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > The only strong feelings I have are that whichever toolkit is used,
> > it must be cross platform and look 'native'
> I have a friend who's a Windows programmer, and he says *none* of them
> are 'native' enough to count as such.  He's threatened to do w Win32
> native hid for pcb just to fix that problem.

The kivy people (kivy.org) call their toolkit a "NUI",
for Native User Interface.  So they at least acknowledge that
each platform has its own expectations for look-and-feel.
But it's all python, and that won't fly here.

  - Larry