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Screenshots Of Qt Designer

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-pretty dept.

an Irie KDE user writes "This page shows some screenshots of Qt Designer on various platforms. Qt Designer is our visual user interface design tool. Technically, it is just another application written with the Qt GUI Toolkit."

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  1. Qt vs. GTK by mw · · Score: 4
    It's a really nice tool. Having programmed both Qt and GTK, I prefer Qt. It's a well thought, compact library, truly multi-platform (unfortunatly, Mac is still missing). GTK is a real hacker's library, not well thought, not easily extendible (compared to Qt, try to modify widget behaviour in Qt and try the same in GTK and you know what I mean). GTK has really bad keyboard handling, and has slow themeing.

    I've to admit that the real advantage of GTK is that it's C-based, so it's much easier to do language binding. GTK has really a lot of support for alternate languages like ADA, Eiffel and such, but the applications implemented in these languages are still missing, so most of the language bindings are for now more a proof of concept.

    For Open-Source software Qt is the way to go (easier to program), for closed software development GTK is the choice (because it's LGPL and free of charge for proprietary software) if you don't expect to get to get any money for your GTK program. Otherwise, Qt is still better because it will save valuable hours of programming time compared to GTK. Remember, the license costs of Qt include one year of free support, where can you get that for GTK?

  2. Multi Platform? I don't think so... by pcbob · · Score: 5

    Am I the only one who thinks that all the "multi platform" (SUN, SGI, Motif) screenshots are actually done on Linux with apropriate Enlightenment themes? Except for Win2K, maybe :)
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  3. KDE and Trolltech bashing is sooo fashionable ... by smolix · · Score: 4
    This is going to get moderated down ...
    It seems that it has become extremely fashionable to criticize every single detail of whatever might not be absolutely politically correct about QT and KDE. On the other hand, whatever GNOME does is welcomed, even if it is, to say the least, as inflammatory as any of the KDE/Trolltech comments (e.g. Icaza's Unix sucks comments).

    Trolltech is a software company that has to make money to survive. And they are writing fairly decent software for that, and provide it for free for non-commercial applications. All they get in return (from the slashdot crowd) is flames. Don't you think that this will make any other company think twice before they provide something for free for Open Source development?

    As for the Gnome `dissing': Trolltech already took it off the website in no time. Please read before posting.

    As for QT designer: sure there's more toolkits available (Kylix, KDevelop, etc.). But, hey, what's so bad about having yet another one? And for commercial development, 2.5k$ is nothing. A good coder costs heaps more than that (for instance MATLAB, a numerical simulations environment costs $10k for industry and $1k for universities).

    So stop complaining and start coding if you want to make a point.