-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:35 am, Sharninder <"Sharninder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: [snip] > > * It seems certain GUI toolkit for X window system is > > married to some specific desktop framework. Does it > > have any technical or historial background. Any > > resource will be highly helpful. > > no .. its all upto the developers to decide which toolkit to use for their > desktop. gnome could have been very well written using QT/something else > ... but they decided on GTK. >
Well, I would say the desktops are married to specific toolkits. If you want to write an application for GNOME/KDE it needs to meet/follow few requirements; and no one in their right mind will try to rewrite them instead of using what is given. And what is given is very specific to toolkits. Of course you can use a gtk data type inside an application for KDE, but you can not write the whole application without using kdelibs/Qt. btw, the fact that Qt/KDE is mainly from Europe and Gtk/Gnome from US may give you some indication of the historical background. my 2 cents. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: My public key can be found at http://www.eyetap.org/~taneem/gpg.txt iD8DBQE/TDvp8LtErN/mHxURAgsoAJ4oxVAUYmcSGELVIYzceIphe1IT1wCdEFWo F9e2dTJr5bYcvzxyg3OfsFE= =FeKB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
