On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 15:20, Greg Woodhouse wrote: > Okay, I'm sure I'm way behind the times here. My first foray into GUI > development was Xlib and Xt, working in C. It probably comes as no > surprise that I find Java Swing a much more friendly environment for > GUI development (and yes, I know it isn't open source). My question is > this: What is your preferred toolkit environment for X11 development? Why? >
It depends I like GTK because it is business like, simple, and straight forward, and there is a dozen language binds etc. Others use QT which started as a tool kit for KDE. I'm not a fan of KDE in that I find it restricting like windows. There is TK with bindings to TCL and others, not that pretty but gets the job done and works across platforms. One of my favorites are the NEXT clones, like the widgets for wmaker based on gnu/step. I like it's syntax and its objective like design. I love the window manager as well, despite that it's drag and drop can be better. It's light and flexible in a way i keep coming back to with multiple virtual workspaces. It's idea for people who never turn their computer off. I used to like Open Look which was a Sun thing before CDE. It has the best virtual workspace interface. But its not used much and has no drag and drop. But when I would work on 10 projects at once, I felt like an airline pilot in the cockpit, able to grab any object and drag it to my current work space, just pluck it out, and then put it back. It also has a tool kit. There are a lot of others as well. But X itself, the network application server that it is, unleashes the desktop in a way nothing else does. Ruben > "The most profound technologies are those that disappear." > --Mark Weiser > > ==== > Greg Woodhouse > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput > a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? > If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. > Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
