I just compiled halo-kazaa, and while testing it, I couldn't wonder why the use of fltk? Was it duo it's reduced size? But won't in the future make it harder to get some nicer looking gui?
Anyways the program has future, and in no time I'll finally be able to really abandon my gnutella clients on linux...
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that's a good question. We chose FLTK for a few reasons. In the beginning, Seth wanted to choose something light-weight, but portable. We found that FLTK fits the bill for both of these catagories very well. In some ways the appearence of the FLTK widget's aren't as customizable as other widget sets, but in the beginning, this wasn't a priority. We weren't exactly sure how popular the client would ever become or if there would be a need for more eye-candy than FLTK could provide. As it turns out, the FLTK widgets are very easy to customize during the development process using a program called FLUID (FL-User Interface Designer) that comes with the FLTK library package. As a result the latest release (0.0.3) has a lot nicer looking GUI than its predessors.
In any case, Thankyou for taking an interest in the program, and keep checking back for future releases, (hopefully) days away...
-Matt
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Hi,
I just compiled halo-kazaa, and while testing it, I couldn't wonder why the use of fltk? Was it duo it's reduced size? But won't in the future make it harder to get some nicer looking gui?
Anyways the program has future, and in no time I'll finally be able to really abandon my gnutella clients on linux...
that's a good question. We chose FLTK for a few reasons. In the beginning, Seth wanted to choose something light-weight, but portable. We found that FLTK fits the bill for both of these catagories very well. In some ways the appearence of the FLTK widget's aren't as customizable as other widget sets, but in the beginning, this wasn't a priority. We weren't exactly sure how popular the client would ever become or if there would be a need for more eye-candy than FLTK could provide. As it turns out, the FLTK widgets are very easy to customize during the development process using a program called FLUID (FL-User Interface Designer) that comes with the FLTK library package. As a result the latest release (0.0.3) has a lot nicer looking GUI than its predessors.
In any case, Thankyou for taking an interest in the program, and keep checking back for future releases, (hopefully) days away...
-Matt