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to explain DWT: it was not written from scratch. it's just an evolution of Smartwin, a toolkit which appeared to be one of the best at the time for Windows. it probably ended up needing more tinkering with than initially thought, but the result is (in my mind) amazing.
the issue here is that Windows already offers a bunch of widgets, but exposed through a messed up C API. with the right ideas, one can design a C++ wrapper that exposes these various widgets and handles all the logic necessary to write a Windows GUI, while still remaining very lightweight. that is what DWT does.
in that same spirit, it would be nice to find a Linux set of GUI primitives and widgets one simply has to wrap around. hence GTK+ (even their C API) or some other low-level toolkit could fit.

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Title:
  Moving away from Win API to Multiplatform

Status in DC++:
  New

Bug description:
  Isnt it time to move away from Win API to multi-platform so every
  platform can enjoy the vanilla client without using mods.

  Currently im running DC++ under Wine and there are alot of missing
  features under Wine since they are windows specific and not working
  proper under Wine and that got me thinking why..

  More and more are moving away from Windows these days since the
  introduction of Windows 8 to other platforms and the development of
  LinuxDC++ seems really low more dead to be fair so why not fill the
  void with small steps towards true multi-platform.

  and without starting to talk about what windows manager to use etc im
  more or less talking about core features but if i can suggest
  something that seems ok, its QT5 i truly hope this feature request at
  least gets some proper consideration and discussion at the top level.

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