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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux |
| Date | 2026-04-12 08:08 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <n41271Fam3jU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <n407gtF6pv7U2@mid.individual.net> <RjCCR.100654$qZec.4110@fx45.iad> |
On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:12:17 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > 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++). I preferred wxWidgets (wxWindows at the time) which is a C++ toolkit that us built on Gtk for Linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxWidgets There are a number of bindings including wxPython and wxPerl. The code looks quite a bit like C++ Windows API programming, instead of the C kludge. I'm not allergic to C++ but I avoid a lot of the more esoteric pieces. It's interesting how many DEs have derived from various versions of Gtk, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, and LXDE for example. The original LXDE crew jumped ship and developed LXQt. I think Lumina is still around and there probably are others but Qt/KDE doesn't seem to have spawned as many forked derivatives. I wonder if that's because of licensing ambiguities or, as he points out in the video, Qt doesn't make a lot of breaking changes that piss people off.
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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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