Re: [Foxgui-users]foXcommander and the future of foXdesktop

[Nick W. <bs...@ba...>]

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> I still have the opinion that FOX has a better general concept than GTK but
> the following things have become more and more important:
> - GTK has almost become the most popular Unix widget set, everyone has it,
>   QT is usually only available if KDE is in use

I don't think that's true; you can install and use the Qt packages even if
you aren't using KDE and they are standard with most distros. The main
problem with Qt is the lack of a free edition for Windows - it is (to my
mind) a well designed library.

> and almost no one (!) has
>   FOX or FLTK or ...

Are the distros aware of it? If so, I'm surprised it's not included more
as cross-platform ability is obviously a useful thing to have...

> - GTK might have a bad concept but GNOME's surrounding technologies are
>   evolving fast and are excellent: Bonobo, Pango...

When I was looking into playing around with gui programming under Linux, I
looked at GTK but it didn't seem half as conceptually "neat" as the C++
based toolkits. I guess it's taken off because "traditional" Unix people
were used to programming in things like xt and motif; my first experience
with GUI programming was actually the Java AWT so I've never known
anything else other than object-orientated GUI programming.

The other problem with GTK from what I gather  is the lack of a stable
version for
Windows - I choose Linux as my main OS for programming but I don't want to
shut windows users out.

Nick W