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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