Re: Alternative GTK widgets

["beginner.c" <beginner c gmail com>]

I've noticed libegg gets used a lot. Does it have a web page? It seems the
most obvious thing for widgets but are there some screen shots somewhere
showing off the widgets?



jcupitt wrote:
> 
> On 5/12/07, Shoq <mattes id gmail com> wrote:
>> Pardon my noobness, but I am new to GTK.  I had assumed there would be a
>> wealth of open source widgets that descend from the toolkit. I am
>> starting
>> to think this was a very poor assumption on my part.  I've not be able to
>> find anything but a few aborted attempts at variations by other parties.
>> Am
>> I missing something? Is there are directory of other efforts to add value
>> to
>> the base classes?
> 
> There are a few I know of:
> 
>    libegg
> 
> This is part of gnome, but you can use it separately (I think). It's a
> set of gtk widgets that people have written that seem useful but which
> haven't settled enough to go into the main gtk distribution yet. I
> think the name is supposed to suggest incubation: if a libegg widget
> becomes popular and useful enough, it will eventually get into gtk.
> For example, the recent files stuff started out in libegg, I think.
> 
>   libsexy
> 
> A library of extra widgets, seems nice, widely used.
> 
>   gtk-extra
> 
> Sheet, plot and other widgets. This is now becoming a little
> old-fashioned (in my opinion), most of their widgets now have
> equivalents in the main gtk tree.
> 
> In addition, most gtk applications include a set of their own widgets
> which you can usually just cut out and keep (license permitting).
> 
> John
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