[clug] Why isn't Java popular on the Linux Desktop?

[Francis Markham]

My uniformed two cents worth:

1) Native feeling GUI programming in Java is hard, especially in
swing.  While good GUI programming is never simple, C#'s GTK# package
has a familiar API for gnome developers and obviously integrates into
the gnome desktop

2) Up until the the release of openjdk, there was no reliable,
compatible java desktop that could be redistributed, gcj
notwithstanding.  I suspect the mono project would never have
commenced if openjdk was available at the time.

Hopefully now that the second problem is ameliorated, the first will
fix itself.  Does anyone have any experience using SWT on linux?

Cheers,

Francis

2009/7/10 Nathan O'Sullivan <nathan.osullivan at team.mammoth.com.au>
>
> Mono has been in the news a bit recently, and I don't want to rehash that topic.
>
> I'm not involved in the Java world, but perhaps someone here is. Why do you think Java has not taken off for Linux Desktop apps? What needs to happen for it to do so?
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