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How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

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Re: How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

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Post by scrollaway »

This post was written by Morten Welinder, the author of Gnumeric and a popular GNOME blogger.

I feel really bad for GTK developers. The GNOME guys have clearly taken the toolkit from a "general purpose" direction to a much more gnome-centric one.

At the same time though, I can't help but be hopeful for the future. Qt is a wonderful project, with a bunch of wonderful licenses, developed in a wonderfully-open environment (It's not like before!) and with wonderful improvements already available in Qt 5. With more and more applications switching to it, I see Qt as a central part of the Linux desktop ecosystem in the future - finally, not only will we have a beautiful desktop with common themes for all apps, but also the power of a truly cross-platform toolkit in most Linux apps. It will be nice.

Re: How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

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Post by morganvachon »

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This is why I prefer Crunchbang Linux (or more generally, a good OpenBox based distro) to Xfce or Gnome 3 these days. I can freely switch between using a GTK app and its QT or other toolkit-based equivalent, assuming such equivalent exists, without the risk of breaking anything on the GUI side. With QT in particular becoming much more modular, I also don't end up with hundreds of megabytes of KDE bloat to support one 10MB app.

Re: How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

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Post by maxlybbert »

scrollaway wrote: post #5

This post was written by Morten Welinder, the author of Gnumeric and a popular GNOME blogger. I feel really bad for GTK developers. The GNOME guys have clearly taken the toolkit from a "general purpose" direction to a much more gnome-centric one. At the same time though, I can't help but be hopeful for the future. Qt is a wonderful project, with a bunch of wonderful licenses, developed in a wonderfully-open environme…

I've always preferred Gtkmm over Qt. That might be because Gtk+ (and Gtkmm) doesn't try to be an "everything, including the kitchen sink" library (and, in related news, I've never been a fan of the Gnome API -- even though I was a fan of the Gnome desktop until Gnome 3).

However, it's always seemed a little perverse to me to have Gtk+ try to imitate '90s-style C++ in C, and then to use a C++ wrapper around that.

Re: How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

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Post by jesuslop »

scrollaway wrote: post #5

This post was written by Morten Welinder, the author of Gnumeric and a popular GNOME blogger. I feel really bad for GTK developers. The GNOME guys have clearly taken the toolkit from a "general purpose" direction to a much more gnome-centric one. At the same time though, I can't help but be hopeful for the future. Qt is a wonderful project, with a bunch of wonderful licenses, developed in a wonderfully-open environme…

I agree, gtk2 was very nice and pleasant to learn, though gnomers have let the other camp to eat their lunch.
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