Re: Basic Differences

[G Hasse <gorhas raditex se>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:24:03PM +0530, Aswathy Prasad wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
>    Is there any basic difference between GTK+, Qt and Motif? 

Yes a lot! (As expected).

Motif only runs att Unix:es (Look att openmotif). It has a small
widgetset and are quite akward to work with.

Qt has a "precompiler" and by that you are "locked in" by there
tools. It doesent handle several displays. Are nice to work with
and if you use their object-thinking also wery fast to do development
with. You don't have very good control over callbacks (signals).

Gtk are more "hardwired" - but I like it a lot. No precompiler. You have
control over "signals" (eg callbacks). There is bindings to a lot
of languages.


> Is gtk+
> advantageous over others? I just heard of these tools for developing GUIs.
> Is there any other tools also used for this purpose? Can gtk+ be used in KDE
> environment also? GNOME and KDE are 2 desktop environments of Linux
> platform, right. Is there any particular difference between GNOME and KDE?
> Can this be used in Windows? If no, then why is told that gtk+ can be used
> in Windows also......

Both Gtk and Qt runs nicely on Windows. Also take a look at vx.
 
>    Will it be better to use Glade to design the GUI's in Fedora, actually
> our platform is OLPC? Or is there any other GUI builder which is better than
> Glade? Could anyone suggest the better one? Can we compile an application
> built using gtk+ in C using the sdcc compiler? Because we need to execute
> and run as the user changes the settings in the interface. So in OLPC there
> is only sdcc. We don't know whether we can install the gcc compiler or not.
> So will it create any problem.

You should realy not use a GUI-builder. For small applications it is ok. For
a more advanced application it will end up in a mess. Qt:s GUI-bilder are
quite allright though.

>  Waiting for the much needed answers.................
>
> aswathy
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