On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:34:39PM -0500, Bill wrote: > Thanks Hadess. I wasn't aware of these issues. BTW, I did not mention > that I will be using the application only under X Windows > environments, and I guess what I was really asking was how does Motif > compare to GNOME or KDE? Why is Motif (relatively) crappy? That's > what I'm after.
Motif is old, not very nice looking, more difficult to use than Gtk+ (well for the programmer). Also you don't get a free implementation easily, thus you need to provide static binaries (as netscape does) or hope the user paid for motif. > Am I correct in understanding that KDE is C++ and GNOME is not? Not > clear what you meant. I use C++. Well, Gtk+ and Gnome are two different things. Gtk+ is mainly C, but has binding in many languages, including C++. See www.gtk.org for more details. > The Windows port might be nice, but GNOME doesn't have it? There is a windows port of gtk+, i managed to get gimp running under windows two years ago with it, it did not find my home directory though an quited. > Also, not sure what you mean by paying money? OpenGL is a protocol > and graphics library available on most platforms for doing graphics, > when possible, it directly calls graphics hardware, so it is fast, > and a very powerful library for doing complex graphics fairly easily > (once you learn it). Well, i think he spoke about the developpment tools, Friendly, Svne Luther
