[Glade-users] windows port

[dkasak at nusconsulting.com.au (Daniel Kasak)]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 02:50 +0200, Hasan Hasanov wrote:

> Unfortunately I do not have much experience with GUI programming. I am a 
> beginner, and I just wanted to try out GTK, but most of the binaries 
> compiled for Windows are really old, and I agree with you that they make 
> applications look really ugly. I really like the look and feel of the 
> GNOME desktop in Linux, but in Windows GTK just looks a little ugly.

My thoughts exactly.

> For now I think I will just stick with learning Qt, and then try GTK 
> when it becomes truly multi platform and ready for the Windows platform.

I'm sad to hear that, but I certainly understand. My problems with QT
were:

 - didn't look as good as Gtk2 ( on Linux )
 - license wasn't so good ( this has changed now )

> But I really like the direction in which GTK is going with Glade. Being 
> able to save your user interface in a seperate glade file is a really 
> nice thing that I do not think Qt provides good support for. It really 
> allows you to concentrate on coding the program engine by letting you 
> build the UI interface in Glade quickly.

QT Designer also works like this.

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