GWT look and feel

[Константин Милютин]

I'm using GWT for some time and I love it. The only thing that disappoints me is its widgets.
They are unpleasant to look at and have limited functionality when you compare them, for example, to Vaadin. Overall look and feel of a "naked" GWT application is poor.

I spent some time reading about GXT, SmartGWT, etc. And the overall feedback about them is also not good.

Will GWT's UI improve in the near future?

[Jens]

I don't think GWT will provide more advanced widgets in the future. The problem is as soon as you start adding more advanced widgets, you will get an endless list of use cases that users want to see on these widgets. So it quickly becomes pretty work intensive but the GWT team at Google isn't large and GWT does not have lots of contributors. So no one who would maintain such widgets.

There is a reason why GXT / SmartGWT / etc. are generally large libraries and are backed by companies. They support lots of use cases and are working full time on improving/maintaining/giving support for these libraries.

GWT only provides three basic building blocks:

1.) Basic wrapper widgets for native HTML elements like button, checkbox, table, etc.

2.) A more complicated set of cell based widgets that are helpful for displaying more data faster on IE6-9. If you only support modern browsers it is already questionable if cell based widgets are worth it.

3.) Widgets that deal with common layouts

All of these can be styled by providing a custom GWT theme that matches your needs. That way a "naked" GWT app can already be pushed pretty far.

-- J.

[Philippe Pithon]

For management software, I advise SmartGWT : it's really great !!! you should test !

For little specific application, I advise GWT with javascript / jquery....

[Константин Милютин]

what do you mean by management software?

среда, 21 января 2015 г., 11:34:35 UTC+1 пользователь Philippe Pithon написал:

[Grisha Shoihet]

https://gwtbootstrap3.github.io/gwtbootstrap3-demo/

Try this,
Works for me.

[Slava Pankov]

http://jqm4gwt.appspot.com/examples.html
Try it, it's based on jQuery Mobile.

[Fabien DUMAY]

Hi,

I think that Putnami Web Toolkit will delight you.

PWT provides a strong framework that make GWT simple, fun and productive.

It equally provides a large set of widget based on Bootstrap.

You can have a look at http://pwt.putnami.org

Regards

—

Fabien

 

[Mohammed Sameen]

Hi Philippe,

SmartGWT:

--Customizing the component in smartgwt is not possible

--Using smartgwt widget,cant achieve responsiveness

GWT:

but gwt is providing some basic widget,

they only way is to create our own custom widgets which requires time to build. 

[Bhumika Thaker]

Hi,

I have work on smartgwt and core gwt also. If you have good knowledge of CSS, you can achieve look and feel design plus good performance in gwt also.

The advantage of core gwt, there is no extra unwanted rich that will affect on performance.

Thanks,

Bhumika