Re: [gtkmm] Gtkmm or Qt?

[Cedric Gustin <cedric gustin swing be>]

At 12:00 PM 8/28/2003 +0930, Dr Mark H Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:06, Markus Gerwinski wrote:
> > Windows support is definitely there and runs good, at least for Gtkmm 
> 2.0. With
> > consequent use of Autoconf/Automake you won't see a difference between 
> building
> > a Gtkmm project on Linux or on W32 with MinGW. I ran into problems 
> using higher
> > versions than 2.0, though, but I'm positive this'll be fixed.

Could you please elaborate on this, Markus ?

> How do you find the look and feel is compared to windows?  Will a
> windows user notice that the program is a gtkmm one rather than
> a normal windows one?  And if yes, will they notice much?

It depends on the theme you use for GTK+ on win32. gtk-wimp is really nice 
(http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/screenshots/) and tries to mimic the 
win2K/XP look and feel as close as possible. There are still some 
differences though, for example the file selector which is still the GTK+ 
one. Of course, you're always free to slightly break the platform 
portability of your code and add some win32-specific lines here and there 
(to use the native fileselector, like Qt does I guess) ! See the thread 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-March/msg00179.html for 
a lengthly discussion on the (dis-)advantages of using native widgets.

Cedric