My 2 cents on the questions I have an opinion about. Martin Olsson wrote:
Hi folks, I'm currently evaluating (GUI) toolkits, and I'm interested in the differences between QT and GTK. My code is going to be GPLed and I need it to be cross-platform. I've read a few previous threads from this list concerning this subject so I know all the basic stuff, but atleast some of the arguments I came across seems to be void these days. I have some questions: 1. Is the win32 version of GTK really that unstable? It's homepage still (as of today) contain a rather scary warning sign.
I've been using it for a while (over a year) compiling against the 2.6.9 release and it's been fine.
2. Name some successful (in terms of many users, well-known) GTK-based projects outside of the GNOME sphere? For instance QT has Opera and Adobe Elements, in heavy use, outside of KDE. 3. I guess there is a whole lot of people on list this that are using multiple toolkits, but for those who prefer GTK over other toolkits: What are your personal motivations for using GTK instead of something else?
I wanted to use GTK instead of QT because I had already written a program that I wanted to add the interface to, and it was written in C, not C++. I am a C programmer to, not C++.
Also, the Windows port of QT is not free to use (or wasn't over a year ago.. I don't know - I don't keep up on Qt) and I wanted (and now have) my program able to be run on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
So, GTK does what I need it to do. Derek -- Derek Piper - dcpiper@xxxxxxxxxxx - (812) 856 0111 IRI 323, School of Informatics Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
