From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 26 16:28:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02727 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.tol.it (mail.tin.it [194.243.154.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02714 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 16:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from dumbwinter.ecomotor.it (a-bu2-7.tin.it [212.216.1.6]) by mail.tol.it (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA03992 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 01:27:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 1421 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Sep 1998 23:21:35 -0000 Message-ID: <19980927012135.B1360@tin.it> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 01:21:35 +0200 From: Marco Molteni To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gui design References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Nicholas Charles Brawn on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:02:43PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > I'm descended into the scary world of xwindows programming and am > looking for some help. :) > > I seem to recall last year there was a heated debate on -chat regarding > gui design, flaws/etc of various products out there. I'm hoping some > of the battle-scared survivors are still around and able to point me > towards any (preferably online) documentation/papers on how to design > *good* graphic user interfaces. I cannot help for the design, but I have some pointers for the toolkits you could use. I personally used and liked very much the Qt toolkit (http://www.troll.no), which is a C++ library. Another option could be Tcl/Tk, maybe with a wrapper generator like SWIG (sorry, I don't remember the URL). Marco -- "Hi, I have a Compaq machine running Windows 95. How do I install FreeBSD?" "I'm sorry, this is device driver testing: brain implants are two doors down on the right". (Bill Paul, on the freebsd-net mailing list) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message