Le 02/12/2015 19:18, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> The audience of Linux does not restrict to email, browsing, and
office suite, that is end users of shiny applications. There is another
kind of audience: people who need to develop their own custom
applications; these people don't care of look and
> The audience of Linux does not restrict to email, browsing, and
office suite, that is end users of shiny applications. There is another
kind of audience: people who need to develop their own custom
applications; these people don't care of look and feel, but they care
with development time.
Le 28/11/2015 07:23, Mitt Green a écrit :
It's not outdated since it's actively maintained. I agree that it
isn't eye-candy at all. But I would say it's easier to program than
ncurses. It has a loot of widgets. The advantage of ncurses is obviously
that it can run without X, therefore on very
> Gtk and Qt are meant for applications who target the general public, which
> have to be shiny and stylish to be adopted.
So an application to connect over wifi isn't an application that targets the
general public?
Also, what are some examples of actively maintained GUI toolkits that don't
If your programs depend on CDE, you could try to compile them against
lesstif2,
that's an LGPL implementation of Motif, on top of just the X libraries.
I don't know if it's binary-compatible or if it's actively maintained.
Frits
And why actually there is no package for it in repository?
Le 28/11/2015 16:29, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> Gtk and Qt are meant for applications who target the general public, which have to be
shiny and stylish to be adopted.
So an application to connect over wifi isn't an application that
targets the
general public?
Take it easy Jonathan.
On 28/11/2015 18:46, Godefridus Daalmans wrote:
If your programs depend on CDE, you could try to compile them against
lesstif2,
that's an LGPL implementation of Motif, on top of just the X libraries.
I don't know if it's binary-compatible or if it's actively maintained.
Not sure of its
Le 25/11/2015 00:50, Timo Buhrmester a écrit :
What's left after Qt and Gtk have been removed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLTK
Here is a summary of my readings on FLTK and Xforms:
Both FLTK and Xforns originate from the same older /Forms/ library.
Both are available from
So, what's so wrong with gtk+2? It
is lightweight (fairly), doesn't have that
unnecessary stuff (animations,
transparent scrollbars, "client-side
decorations") and has better
theme support.
Mitt
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>>> The issue with Gtk is that it is part of Gnome and Gnome >>> is becoming
>>> more and more entangled with Systemd.
Well, I hope things won't get that mad,
so we'll have gtk+ depending on systemd,
and reckon it won't (:
>>> Regarding writing an appli, I can only tell it's easy with >>>
Le 27/11/2015 20:18, Mitt Green a écrit :
So, what's so wrong with gtk+2? It
is lightweight (fairly), doesn't have that
unnecessary stuff (animations,
transparent scrollbars, "client-side
decorations") and has better
theme support.
Mitt
I have personnaly nothing against neither Gtk+* nor
Le 27/11/2015 21:29, Mitt Green a écrit :
Please excuse yours truly, I haven't been following
the thread. For XForms, I think it's a bit outdated
(read *oldschool* and not "eye-candy" if you prefer)
like Motif.
It's not outdated since it's actively maintained. I agree that it
isn't
>>> It's not outdated since it's actively maintained. I agree that it
>>> isn't eye-candy at all. But I would say it's easier to program than
>>> ncurses. It has a loot of widgets. The advantage of ncurses is obviously
>>> that it can run without X, therefore on very small systems; I wouldn't
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