Re: gtkmm capabilities

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

I did in no way mean to imply that gtkmm would lack functionality that 
Qt has (although Qt is much more than just GUI, for xml handling one 
could use libxml++ but for example I don't know of any complete C++ 
database abstraction layers). What I meant was that with Qt, one has one 
central vendor to contact, with a lot of sample code and documentation, 
while with gtkmm it is necessary (in my opinion) to look at gtk source 
code, look at other projects that use gtkmm so see how some things are 
done, read the mailing list(s), keep up to date with the latest releases 
of gtkmm and related libraries, etc... all of which takes up time. In 
commercial settings, that time will cost much more than 3000$ per 
developer. Also, think about the learning curve: there are a lot of 
books on qt, but I don't know of any about gtkmm (except for the 
manual). 3000$, that's 4 developer days: IMO in a commercial setting, 
Qt's documentation alone will save one 4 days.


cheers,

roel



Foster, Gareth wrote:
> > I like gtkmm better than I like Qt so don't get me wrong here, but if 
> > 3000$ is too much (compared to the expected revenue of your product and 
> > the time you'll have to spend writing things yourself) than you better 
> > think over your business plan again.
>
>
> Does this mean that GTK+ is a long way behind Qt in terms of functionality?
>
> Not that I know any better, but I've never heard that this was the case, out
> of interest, what sort of widgets etc does Qt have that are missing in GTK+
> etc?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gaz
>
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