On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:39:17PM -0400, Patrick Mc(avery wrote: > Hi Richard > > Actually I am not looking for a Windows clone, just a > software-correct GUI. I don't need much too. I need text input > widgets and a way to display graphs. The graphs could be > grammatically created images that are independent of the window > manager and widget toolkit but simply presented to the user. > > XFCE was okay on Linux but I still had some issues. XFCE on Fedora > was a train wreck.
Simple graphics software, especially the engineering kind, can be built around xforms, that we have in our ports tree... For more advanced stuff, I would dearly recommend qt >= 4. (and possibly kde4 proper once the current transition period gets sorted out).