Re: Most compatible AND useful toolkit for use in GNOME

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 14 February 2013 16:43, Marco Scannadinari <marco scannadinari co uk> wrote:
>         Qt is an entirely unrelated toolkit, it has nothing to do with Gtk.
> Yes, that is true. It's not necessarily GTK I intend to use, although
> that is what I would *like*.
> Taking into consideration which is the easiest to learn, and which will
> be able to target the most users, Qt seems like a good toolkit for these
> purposes. Qt also looks quite native on the new GNOME 3.6, albeit
> appearing like the old GTK+ theme.
> I am actually quite biased towards GTK, but the idea of being able to
> develop for multiple platforms seems quite attractive (in regard to Qt).

"looking like" and "integrated" are two fairly different concepts.

there are some integration points, mostly because of the work done at
the X11 and freedesktop.org level, between toolkits, but clearly: if
you want to integrate with GNOME, GTK is the toolkit you should use.
application menus, the various APIs to handle authorization,
integration with web services, and remote file systems are in GNOME
platform libraries.

plus, GTK is moderately portable on different platform â up to a
point, at least; the main difference between Qt and GTK approaches at
multi-platform portability is that Qt defers to the platform, whereas
GTK is providing the platform (and papering over it, where possible).

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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