> ..
> > however, to add spice to students lives, we would like to include a GUI
> > programming part. this is also make students "see" their applications.
> > i have narrowed down some possible toolkits to use for this:
> >
> > X/Motif
> > X/gtk
> > tcl/tk
>
> Motif is crappy and ancient. See how buggy Netscape 4 is? a lot of that
> has to do with Motif. Avoid like the plague.
>
is this because netscape uses lesstif and not the newly open sourced open
motif??
> Tcl/Tk is fine because it's interpreted. But Tcl is an ugly language
> (apologies to BrianB, I know you're a big Tcl/AOLserver fan..)
>
hehe.
> Gtk+ is nice.. and there's a GUI builder (GLADE). But word on the street
> is.. use KDevelop. That is, if you don't mind C++. It's the most mature
> (free) GUI development platform for Linux. I haven't tried it (I've only
> used Gtk+).
>
yup. i have tried glade and it is decent enough to use.
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