for graphics, or it could use gtk, or Qt, or perhaps something
else. I am not really happy with any of the available options,
though it seems that gtk (or gtk++?) has substantial momementum
in the open source community, and some reasonable hope of porting
to Windows (which I consider important).
I've been using the Windows version of the Gimp (which runs on
gtk; gtk+ for themes) for just about a year now. Development
bugs aside, I'm quite happy with it. IIRC, win32 AbiWord uses
gtk too. I've not used any win32 Qt programs so I don't know how
they compare. An item to note is that only X11 Qt is libre
software - the Win32 Qt GUI toolkit is not.
For what it is worth, there are cross-platform toolkits aplenty out there that
would let us use the same code base on Windows and in a variety of flavours of
Unices.
Angus.
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, Matt.Wilkie wrote:
>for graphics, or it could use gtk, or Qt, or perhaps something
>else. I am not really happy with any of the available options,
>though it seems that gtk (or gtk++?) has substantial momementum
>in the open source community, and some reasonable hope of porting
>to Windows (which I consider important).
I've been using the Windows version of the Gimp (which runs on
gtk; gtk+ for themes) for just about a year now. Development
bugs aside, I'm quite happy with it. IIRC, win32 AbiWord uses
gtk too. I've not used any win32 Qt programs so I don't know how
they compare. An item to note is that only X11 Qt is libre
software - the Win32 Qt GUI toolkit is not.