I don't want to pick nits, but I also don't want someone new to the
subject to get the wrong idea either..

Qt and GTK+ are both more than just graphics.

Qt is more comparable to the standard Java libraries in scope -
everything from GUI to DB drivers to process/thread management.

GTK+ builds on GLib, giving it a similarly broad feature set.

~Ryan

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Daniel Eggleston<[email protected]> wrote:
> KDE is a desktop environment. It contains things like, a window manager
> (kwin), taskbar (kicker), desktop display, file manager/web browser
> (konqueror).
>
> The KDE headers help you integrate with the K Desktop Environment, which
> uses the QT widget set (which is a set of widgets used for displaying
> windows).
>
> GTK is another widget set, and Gnome is an associated desktop environment
> (used the metacity window manager, I think it uses compiz or something now)
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> In Linux Rapid Application Development by Cameron Hughes and Tracey
>> Hughes, the authors show c++ programming examples for QT and
>> (apparently) KDE programming libraries.  The QT examples include
>> headers files that begin with a Q ("qmessagebox.h"), while the K
>> programs have header files that begin with a k ("kapp.h").
>>
>> Both of these appear to link to the same qt library, but I haven't
>> been able to get any of the programs to compile.  Can someone please
>> explain to me what is the difference between these two?  I thought KDE
>> was a window manager, not a programming library.
>>




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