From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 20 16:41:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F178B37B417 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DAE2BCF3; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27498; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:41:41 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g2L0f9i56210; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preferred GUI toolkit for FreeBSD? References: <20020320141702.B91598@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 20 Mar 2002 16:41:08 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020320141702.B91598@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick writes: > There aren't a lot of options, but I was wondering if the GTK toolkit is > a safe bet. I've decided to learn a native toolkit rather than Java > first, unless something major changes my mind in the near future. > > Any other options I should consider? If you want something that's not copyleft, look into IV Tools at http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/ and if you also care to experiment with something with some interesting modern concepts but which stopped development before getting lots of widgets, etc., check out Fresco at http://www.eupedia.org/fresco.html (The introductory treatises and docs are well-written and interesting even if you ignore the code.) (I'm guessing that UNIX would be in a much better state if the X people had not stopped work on Fresco. We probably wouldn't have had most of the mostly wasteful competitions between CDE/GNOME/KDE and C/C++ and X11 toolkits. Or at least better competitions between better designs. And it would have been long ago available for M$Win/UNIX cross-platform application development. The experimental version has been since at least '98.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message