Re: Motif vs. GTK+

[Viraj Chatterjee <vchatter adobe com>]

Another strong reason to shift to GTK would be, if you want your application
to be accessible to visually impaired or handicapped people. GTK widgets
expose standard ATK interfaces which most screen readers can extract and
understand.

So, if your application might need to be accessible sometime, or you would
want to convince governments to adopt your software, GTK should be the
toolkit that you might want to stick to.

Making Motif widgets work with ATK will require a lot of work, and it'll be
a non-trivial task.

-vc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amit BHATNAGAR" <abhatnag mda ca>
To: <gtk-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:54 PM
Subject: Motif vs. GTK+


> Hi All.
>
> While still trying to convince the "powers that be" that
> GTK+ is a better alternative to Motif, I am having problems
> presenting my case. We all know that Motif is super old and
> GTK+ is intended to be its replacement, but is there a resource
> that describes the (dis)advantages of using GTK vs. tried and
> tested Motif. (ie: widget sets, maintainability, risk, gui builders
> etc. etc)
>
> The static comes from switching from a proven toolkit to an
> open source alternative.
>
> I've google'd a bunch and searched thru the archives, but
> nothing out there explains -why- one should consider GTK
> beside the good old "Motif is outdated" argument.
>
> If such a thing exists, or if you have any suggestions, please
> let me know.
>
> thanks again,
> amit.
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