Hello,
I wish I knew more about GUI toolkits. Somehow I've never managed to find
the time. In which way does Gtk have a more sophisticated internal design?
My understanding is that Gtk doesn't work so well on Mac and Windows. The
screenshots on the Gtk website certainly make it look out of place on Mac.
Anyway, I just tried to install Gtk.jl on my Macbook but I keep getting a
weird timeout error with Cairo:
julia> Pkg.add("Cairo")
INFO: Cloning cache of Cairo from git://github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl.git
fatal: unable to connect to github.com: github.com[0: 192.30.252.130]:
errno=Operation timed out
ERROR: failed process: Process(`git clone -q --mirror git://
github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl.git /Users/daniel/.julia/v0.4/.cache/Cairo`,
ProcessExited(128)) [128]
I will try again when I can find a different way to get online.
Cheers,
Daniel.
On 28 March 2016 at 06:25, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gtk.jl has a more sophisticated internal design and is sometimes 5x or so
> faster for certain time-consuming rendering operations. For new code, I
> would
> certainly recommend it over Tk.jl, and I am slowly migrating my older
> visualization packages to it.
>
> Best,
> --Tim
>
> On Sunday, March 27, 2016 05:09:51 PM Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When it comes to GUI toolkits in Julia, Gtk seems to be the main choice,
> > followed by Tk. At least in terms of development effort:
> >
> > Gtk.jl -- 444 commits, 23 contributors
> > Tk.jl -- 235 commits, 28 contributors
> > PySide.jl -- 35 commits, 2 contributors
> >
> >
> > Although I like Gtk, I'm curious. Is there a reason Gtk gets more
> > attention? Maybe Tk is just easier to support, so it doesn't need as many
> > commits. But Tk also has less documentation. So I do get the impression
> Gtk
> > gets more attention. Why would Gtk or Tk be preferred in the context of
> > Julia?
> >
> > My understanding is that Gtk is great on Linux but doesn't work so well
> on
> > Windows and Mac. Tk has historically been considered ugly ("looks like
> > Motif") but my impression is that this was fixed long ago. Gtk has more
> > widgets than Tk and I think also more inputs. Qt is supposed to be great
> on
> > other platforms. Are C++ toolkits more difficult to support? Oh, there is
> > no package for wxWidgets, and that's also a C++ toolkit. Maybe that's a
> > factor? Or maybe people just like the look of Gtk.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel.
>
>
