Re: [gtk-list] Re: To GTK, or not to GTK - that is the question

[Dave Cole <dave dccs com au>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Bitmead <Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au> writes:

Chris> It seems like there is a lot to lose to me. Don't take this as
Chris> a flame. It may be worth it. Maybe I will find out why as I
Chris> start to use GTK. But it just looks to me at the moment like
Chris> gratuitously breaking standards. It's not clear to me right now
Chris> what exactly could possibly have been gained that couldn't have
Chris> been done by extending what was standard out there
Chris> already. There's just so many X11 widget sets out there, it's
Chris> crazy.

Having lots of widget sets is good - it promotes competition.  In the
short term you have a mixture of sets present on your desktop as the
applications you want to run are written using different sets.  As
time passes, one of the good widget sets reaches critical mindshare
mass and emerges as the defacto standard.  This is called innovation.

I programmed applications with Motif for a number of years.  I hated
it, although Wcl made things a little easier to stomach.  The biggest
difference between Motif and Gtk is that the Gtk people developed the
widget set for a real application.  This means that the widget set is
very functional, and easy to program.  One the other hand, OSF seems
to have developed their widget set without trying to build anything
more complex than a data entry system.

- Dave

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