Hello Gour, Monday, November 21, 2011, 5:24:09 PM, you wrote: G> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:34:14 +0700 G> Lothar Scholz <llothar@xxxxxx> wrote: >> And for any commerical application you will see that soon there is no >> way to use GTK+ anymore on this systems. Apples App Store will became >> so important that you have to obey the rules that you must use the >> Cocoa toolkit and on Windows8 we see the same with Metro. No metro no >> app store. When you only target geeks then it might be ok, they can >> use fink and unix tools and don't worry about the GUI output. G> In our case, we plan to write open-source app. This doesn't mean much for the App Stores, question is will you need an easy end user distribution. >> It very much depends on your competition, customer base and >> application domain. But it's stupid from a business/money making point >> to use GTK+ on anything else then Linux. G> Hmm...what would you say then about Qt on Mac? It's better but suffers from the same problems of not being native. But still looks very alien for MacOSX users. >> So for Gour i stay with my advise to use WxWidget and select a >> programming language that has a good binding. WxWidgets is using GTK >> by the way in it's most stable Unix port. G> Do you consider wxWdgets better option for Mac than Qt? Definitely, they are wrapping Cocoa native widgets. Reason why i haven't used it was that i found the wxWidgets layer to heavy and to old. Waiting for 3 years to release the better 3.x brand. And they are very slow picking up new features because of this heavy layer. >> And did your boss really approve to use an experiemental language like >> D - he's brave! G> Considering it's open-source application, he is more like 'mentor' than G> 'boss'. :-) Well so i assume you don't take a loan of $100,000 like i have done to develop software. In this case there isn't really a risk anyway. >> I learned it the hard way to not put my trust into community projects >> like this. Use a WxWidget/Script-Language/C/C++ combination. G> We would like to stay away from C(++). Otoh, wxwidgets is also community G> project, isn't it? It's a community project. But at least it is useable at the moment. I never ever trust again that this will soon be stable. Thats why i more optimistic about the native toolkits that are maintained by MS and Apple. -- Best regards, Lothar mailto:llothar@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
