I completely agree with Tarin. Just to add a note, VB is a dead language. Microsoft officially discontinued it. However, since you already tried Java. You can chose from Python or Ruby. If you choose Java for desktop application, you'll lose myself as a user of your software :P
Qt, gtk+, wx are frameworks for rapid developments. These are similar to API. But in a good structured object oriented manner. For Python, you can find the bindings for these, but for ruby these are not fully implemented yet. On your Ubuntu machine, install wxpython by running sudo apt-get install python-wx2.8 python-wxglade Then go to the site http://wxpython.org/tutorial.php you'll start writing GUI app in no time. wxglade is a GUI editor like form editor in VB. Gnome and KDE are the desktop environment. You know Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fluxbuntu, Xubuntu does look different to each other. They look different because of the desktop environment and window manager. Gnome and KDE are only two DE among numerous others for Linux. Nasim -- M. Nasimul Haque, M.Sc.(SUST) Wessex Institute of Technology Southampton, UK -- ubuntu-bd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
