Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux

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On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:23:10 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 12/04/2026 02:12, 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 chose a different route, I program in javascript and CSS and run it
> all under apache/php.
> 
> With C backends underneath.
> 
> Its justs simpler than faffing around with all the toolkits and widgets

That works. However if you develop a full on Angular app it stops being 
simple.

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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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