Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux

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From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Subject	Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux
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Date	2026-04-12 01:12 +0000

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On 2026-04-12, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> While I am primarily a C programmer and mostly worked with Motif/Tk
> my initial feeling was Gtk was incredibly ugly, and the was a few
> Gtks ago.

What little GUI puttering I've done in Linux was with GTK.
I too am primarily a C programmer, and GTK was the only
package that worked with straight C (i.e. not requiring C++).

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GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 00:32 +0000
  Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2026-04-12 00:35 +0000
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-12 02:55 +0000
      Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-04-12 09:24 +0200
        Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 18:10 +0000
          Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-04-13 13:01 +0200
  Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-04-12 01:12 +0000
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 08:08 +0000
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-12 11:23 +0100
      Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 18:14 +0000
        Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-13 14:03 +0100
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-04-12 07:42 -0400
  Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Borax Man <boraxman@geidiprime.invalid> - 2026-04-12 13:08 +0000

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