____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 13 March 2008 09:50 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Thursday 13 March 2008 07:38 : \____
>>
>>> Rick wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:49:33 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> GTK+ 3.0: Getting serious.
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | GTK+ has come a long way. From its humble beginnings as “The GIMP
>>>>> ToolKit”, | it is now used in a plethora of applications. In fact, GTK+
>>>>> is very popular. | GNOME, one of the leading desktop environment on
>>>>> Unix systems, uses GTK+ | almost exclusively. The Gimp is built upon
>>>>> GTK+, of course. And there are | many commercial software developers
>>>>> like Adobe, NVidia and VMware that | decided to use it as a base for
>>>>> their products. `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://federkiel.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/gtk-30-getting-serious/
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it is a shame KDE isn't built on gtk+.
>>>
>>> Why? GTK is, compared to KDEs infrastructure, a total mess.
>>> Have you ever looked with a programmers eye on both toolkits?
>>> KDE is vastly superior in that regard
>>>
>>>> I prefer KDE to Gnome, but generally use gtk apps.
>>>>
>>> Again, why? There are few which don't have a good KDE counterpart.
>>> Granted, it makes no real difference for a user if he uses KDE or Gnome
>>> (as seen from the apps). If a Gnome/GTK app is run under KDE, it still
>>> runs just as well as if run under Gnome.
>>
>> I've developed in both GTK and Qt. GTK is all right. How extensive is your
>> hands-on experience with GTK?
>>
>
> Enough to never use GTK again. QT is lightyears ahead. And when it comes to
> handling different languages, there simply is no contest at all.
>
> I have lots to do with providing apps in different languages (lately I had
> to do an application in Serbian, Croatian and Slowenian language. Two other
> ones will follow shortly. An app in Russian is on the ToDo list). QT
> absolutely shines in handling that.
>
> Additionally, in QT I develop it under linux, can test it under linux and
> still later compile the *same* source code in windows (or even Mac OSX,
> although there is so little demand for it I will not do it. The expense of
> a Mac plus the QT licence for it will not pay out in several years).
>
> QT is crossplatform at its best, GTK much less so. And since demand for
> linux apps has been up since quite some time (with OSX demand stagnant, and
> very low) I better use a toolkit which provides easy access to both windows
> and linux. When not doing new apps (which still takes most of my time) I am
> in the process of converting older projects (win-only) to QT.
When I programmed with GTK I used no IDE because I didn't know about Glade (I
did use it later). I used Qt only later and it seemed more mature, but that
was 2 years after using GTK (when GTK 2 was out... and still very new).
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