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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. All quiet on the Slashdot front??? by FyRE666 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where are all the comments? Is anybody out there?... Hello?...

    --
    Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
  2. ohhh man I... by raffe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see a great flamewar comming!!! This should be a post!
    :-P

  3. An Alan Smithee Movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Standing on the beach
    With a gun in my hand
    Staring at the sea
    Staring at the sand
    Staring down the barrel
    At the arab on the ground
    I can see his open mouth
    But I hear no sound

    I'm alive
    I'm dead
    I'm the stranger
    Killing an arab

    I can turn
    And walk away
    Or I can fire the gun
    Staring at the sky
    Staring at the sun
    Whichever I chose
    It amounts to the same
    Absolutely nothing

    I'm alive
    I'm dead
    I'm the stranger
    Killing an arab

    I feel the steel butt jump
    Smooth in my hand
    Staring at the sea
    Staring at the sand
    Staring at myself
    Reflected in the eyes
    Of the dead man on the beach
    The dead man on the beach

    I'm alive
    I'm dead
    I'm the stranger
    Killing an arab

  4. slashdot really needs... by bani · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... a "flamebait" or "troll" story category ...

  5. Sorry. by buzzbomb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wanted to take Friday off too, but the boss said I couldn't.

    Guess you'll have to do your own homework.

  6. Re:Qt if you need Win32 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I actually prefer GTK+ and I think it's a better bet long-term

    How the hell is this +5 Informative? Ami Ganguli's opinion alone is worth +5?

    Somebody get me off this sinking ship.

  7. Re:GTK vs. QT -- a comparison by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you're trying to entertain us, please do it well and post some links to other sluts as well. Thanks.

  8. Also a little OT: Java SWT by PRR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Something to keep in mind even though it's still in it's very early stages... IBM is behind a new Java API for GUI's called SWT (Standard widget toolkit). In a nutshell, it's sort of a combo of AWT and Swing. It uses mostly native widgets (like AWT) for better performance, memory footprint, and native L&F... but also makes use of emulated widgets (like Swing) for the occasions when a particular peered component may not exist on a given platform.

    More info on SWT can be found at the Eclipse website as well as a good intro article here. Right now it supports Win32 MFC as well as (somewhat ugly) Motif for Linux, but Qt and GTK ports are being worked on. As always with Java, portability is a strong consideration, and the hope is that an app written with SWT will work on a wide variety of platforms and native toolkits.