On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Mariano Baragiola <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/16 11:21, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> >> Quick question for you guys.  I recentlydecided to see if I could get >> away >> with runningOpenBSD on my office workstation.  I gotthe idea after >> playing >> around with xfreerdp's 'rail' mode which allows me to run Windowsapps >> (primarily ESRI ArcMap) on a server viaRDP. >> >> Anyway, things are going very well.  I learnedperl and have been using it >> where I had been using Java on my Windows box.  I figured sinceperl is >> part >> of the base system and Netbeanshasn't been updated in like 5 years, you >> guys probably aren't big on Java :).  But here's my question: every now >> and >> then I like to makea quick and dirty GUI app.  In Windows, I was using >> Netbeans/Java/Swing.  What do youguys use for a simple GUI with a >> visualdesigner?  I looked into wxperl, but the systemperl isn't threaded, >> so >> not optimal for GUIs.  I could always use plenv and install a >> second,threaded perl, but thought I'd check to see ifanyone had a better >> idea. >>  Or do you guys justnot write GUIs? :) >> Daniel Boyd >> > > Not a huge fan of GUIs myself. Most of commercial software I was involved > was web based. > > But, you should take a look to GTK+. There's also Qt but I think, > and I'm taking a big guess here, so please correct me, that GTK+ > is less complex/harmful than Qt. So it would be closer to OpenBSD's > ideals.
Qt is also very C++ oriented, which for me is a show-stopper because I detest the language. I've written a personal finance manager in C using Gtk+3 and it has worked well for me. Tcl/Tk is a useful combination for quick hacks.
