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GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPdIBLk__tY

So, I started out looking for tab for 'The Fields of Athenry', fell into 
the internet rabbit hole, and wound up here. I found it to be interesting.

It echoes my personal experience. 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. However Qt wasn't an option for 
commercial software. It wasn't so much the licensing fees as TrollTech's 
requirements were incredibly opaque. We were paying for both developers 
licenses and the sites were paying for runtime licenses for other 
products. but you could get a handle on the costs upfront.

As the years went on the two camps grew further apart, plus the splinters 
in the GNOME world as people decided GTK X or GNOME X sucked and forked 
off the old technology. 

Towards the end he makes a point I've also experienced. I run Konsole on 
Ubuntu and that comes with a certain amount of KDE support. There is also 
the 'I've been gnomed' phenomenon. It usually involves installing Proton, 
rebooting, and finding you're now using GNOME instead of Cinnamon or 
whatever else you expected.

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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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