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GUI Toolkits for the X Window System

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-about-athena dept.

TeachingMachines writes "Leslie Polzer has written a nice summary of the current state of GUI Toolkits for the X Windows System (article title of the same name). Those of you who are planning to spend hours and hours scouring the Internet for a mature cross-platform GUI toolkit may save some time and trouble by reading this summary. Leslie's review covers the pros and cons of using GTK+, Trolltech QT, FLTK, wxWindows, and the FOX Toolkit."

4 of 353 comments (clear)

  1. bah by Tirel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He forgot SDL. It's very good, I like working with it, nice interface X11, etc.

  2. You are a moron by cculianu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's just a linking problem. You are clearly a moron. And what's with your line breaks?

    Retard.

  3. Re:Please avoid GTK by Malc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Theming doesn't work so well when you don't use GNOME. It works even worse when the apps aren't used under Linux/X.

    I find it quite amusing how my original post got moderated down as flamebait rather than debated. I guess the truth hurts. The GTK team could learn a lot from some of the other tool kit makers - yes, including Trolltech.

    Oh, I do have a little experience of GNOME. I used the Ximian Desktop version of it for at least a year before I got fed-up with its crapiness.

  4. annoying perl by axxackall · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Programming on Perl is annoying in general, by itself, no matter with TK or something else.

    Just try Tcl/Tk or Python/Tkinter and enjoy.

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    Less is more !