Re: [ossig] gtk applications ?

[Mukhsein Johari <pythonium@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raja Iskandar Shah <ris.riscniaga@time.net.my>
wrote:

> anyone out there has any real life experience with
> developing
> applications with gtk ? strengths and weaknesses ?
> trying to help a

To be honest, in general, all the gui toolkits do more
or less the same thing (they have to after all).
After you've looked at a few (Qt, gtk, tk, wxwindows)
they all start to look similar. Imho the strengths and
weaknesses are not really technical. It's more like
questions of long term development, active development
of the toolkit, how widespread it is and so on. Gtk+
has a lot going for it. XFCE, GNOME, Inkscape, GIMP
and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird use it. Incidentally,
if you develop mozilla apps, you are implicitly using
gtk, at least on unix. 

The thing *I* like about gtk is that it's relatively
compact (compare it to Qt!) and fast (XFCE) if you
disregard gnomelib and co.

> friend in evaluating php-gtk - he is already
> familiar with php; as
> opposed to dot-net - where you can use the same
> language for web
> services as well as rich client applications. he has
> given up on java
> (too complicated).
> 

Hehehe, lots of people are giving up on java, even
initial proponents. It's too heavyweight for general,
everyday, garden variety type programs.

I'm just not too sure about php as a general purpose
language, though. Do a lot of people use it that way?
I suppose if you're already familiar with php...

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