Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-15 Thread jvetterli
Some of my thoughts on the matter: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:10:42AM -0600, Thomas Stover wrote: ... -QT (last time I checked) is not even C++. It's C++ and a custom macro language. building ouch. debugging ouch. C++ paradigm ouch. The Qt macros aren't very intrusive. Once you have your

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Torrie
jvette...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I find that deriving classes in C++ is alot easier than going through the GObject type system. Yes this is true, in C. GTKmm makes things rather nice if you work in C++. In fact I kind of like how GTKmm works without a preprocessor, with type-safe

RE: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Andersen, Jan
As someone who has recently stopped using GNOME, let me give my viewpoint, then, about why I have stopped using it. It isn't so much knee-jerk, I would hope, as simple, everyday usefulness. It was not an easy decision for me to leave and start using KDE - I have used GNOME from the beginning

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Torrie
Andersen, Jan wrote: 1. X used to display a small label containing the position and size of a window when you moved it. That was one feature I found hugely useful; I usually have 9 desktops and organise my applications with fixed dimensions and positions different desktops - like Pidgin on

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Jack
interesting issues, but it is certainly possible. (See my other post on problems parsing rc files.) From: Andersen, Jan jander...@informatica.com To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:22:47 PM Subject: RE: qt vs gtk As someone who has

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Iain *
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Jack ostrof...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I believe the original question was gkt+ vs qt. I don't believe there was a question And this is all fairly offtopic for this list. So lets stop it now before it gets silly. iain ___