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GTK-- vs. QT

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the technical-comparisons dept.

spirality asks: "The company I work for is getting ready to decide on a GUI Toolkit for our Computational Modeling Toolkit (CoMeT, www.cometsolutions.com). We would like C++ compatibility and ports to various Unices and Win32 platforms. Not supprisingly we've come up with two choices, GTK-- and QT. I've attempted to compare the two by doing alot of web surfing and searching, but I've come up with things that are consistently one or more years old. So, the question I pose is what are the (dis)advatages of GTK-- and QT, and why would I choose one of these toolkits over the other? Overall functionality, momentum for future growth, ease of use, licensing, and pretty much anything else is relevant to our decision." With QT now at version 3.0 and GTK now in the 1.2.x revisions, maybe it's time to give the two libraries some fair comparison and discuss the new features, advantages, and disadvantages of each?

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  1. Bwhahahahahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    It looks like it's going to be a troll friday, eh.

    what next Taco, how about a rousing vi against emacs story?


    Oh, first post for Jesus !!!!

    1. Re:Bwhahahahahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I actually agree with you, we just add 2 stories about Open Source viability, a new Linux kernel, some Mozilla release, ...
      Most of this stuff was able to start flamewars so here we have a huge potential.
      Does Slashdot want to declare war on tertro(ll)rism ???
      what about a good old atari vs amiga troll ?
      or windows vs apple ?

  2. Re:QT seems to rule by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I agree with you 100%. I've neve used GTK, nor do I know anything about it, but I seem to recall that a friend of my brothers girlfriend said he heard from someone that it was rough around the edges and had no development roadmap for the future. But, on the other hand, I did read an article on ZDnet a couple of years ago about QT, so I would say that it's a much better platform.

  3. Easy! by zensonic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Qt is 3.0

    Gtk is 1.2.x

    Sure it's friday, but come on, thats easy 3.0>1.2, so the choice must be Qt!

    Same reasoning shows that Windows 2000 are MUCH better than Windows 98 which in turn is slightly (by 3 point) better than Windows 95, which again are MUCH better than windows 3.11.

    Sigh. Does you youngsters not learn anything today?

    --
    Thomas S. Iversen
    1. Re:Easy! by damiam · · Score: 4, Funny

      So Mozilla build 20012311 must be the best piece of software ever made!

      --
      It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
  4. Clearly an unfair comparison... by pastie · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...as everyone knows that the software with the highest version number is obviously the best.

    (Score:-1, Sarcastic)