----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxx> > To: > Cc: "gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx" <gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 7:52 AM > Subject: Re: Bug 687752 - work with theme authors > > Interesting... Even this mailing list has been changed to "Gnome > List," > instead of "GTK List." > > On 11/30/2012 10:08 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote: >> FLTK ( www.fltk.org ) ? >> >> There are also Perl bindings - if one wants quick GUI development: > http://search.cpan.org/dist/FLTK/ > > Drifting further off-topic here, I realize. > > Perl is not a language I turn to for any purpose, really. I've looked > at many of the GTK alternatives before, and none of them really appeal > to me. At this point, there really is only one alternative to GTK, and > that's Qt. > > I wonder what firefox and libreoffice will do in the future. Both of > them are definitely not Gnome apps. Both of them largely implement > their own widgets, using part of GTK for look, and function (event loop > and such), so porting to another toolkit may be possible. Whether or > not Gnome developers feel that Firefox is relevant, it is probably the > most-used linux app out there, and if you count Google Chrome, which is > also GTK-based, there is a lot of usage here, and the desktop > environment itself doesn't matter so much. > For that matter, Python is not a language I turn to for any purpose, really. But there can be Python bindings too - I didn't check. And yes, Qt is is _the_ alternative, and it comes with QML - which is JavaScript, which is much closer to Perl than to Python ;). Regards, Sergei. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
