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Gtk#
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What language do you use for developing GTK-Applications?
mono/gtk-sharp is still stuck on 2.0 I think, but GtkSharp/GtkSharp uses 3.22 and up.
GtkSharp
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.NET MAUI on Linux Makes Progress
I noticed GtkSharp is on version 3.24, quite mature. I hope MS takes this seriously brings much needed Linux support, as all the dependency components are in place.
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.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
There's also the more direct route by using say Gtk directly[1].
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How quickly and efficiently do you believe Linux will get support for MAUI apps?
Looks like a "blocker" is getting GtkSharp working with .Net6. Unclear from this GitHub issue when such support will be merged into the project's main branch.
- Cross platform gui frameworks that aren't xaml-based?
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Writing a GUI app on Linux, for Linux
For .NET GUI development on Linux, my go-to choice would be GTK#. This is a managed wrapper on GTK+2 or 3. If you have experience on developing GUI application using C and GTK+, you can reuse most of the concepts (and even some of the Glade files) in GTK#.
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F# for Linux People
Your only real choice for GUI development with F#/.NET on Linux is GTK#. (I've gotten feedback on Twitter that this statement may be a bit harsh, will update when I dive a bit deeper into other options).
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What language do you use for developing GTK-Applications?
mono/gtk-sharp is still stuck on 2.0 I think, but GtkSharp/GtkSharp uses 3.22 and up.
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WinForms Alternative
GTK https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp
What are some alternatives?
Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.
Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home
metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF
UWP Community Toolkit - The Windows Community Toolkit is a collection of helpers, extensions, and custom controls. It simplifies and demonstrates common developer tasks building .NET apps with UWP and the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3 for Windows 10 and Windows 11. The toolkit is part of the .NET Foundation.
XWT - A cross-platform UI toolkit for creating desktop applications with .NET and Mono
WinApi - A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop
DockPanelSuite - DockPanel Suite - The Visual Studio inspired docking library for .NET WinForms
Maui.Markup - The .NET MAUI Markup Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains Fluent C# Extension Methods to easily create your User Interface in C#
HandyControl - Contains some simple and commonly used WPF controls