[ILUG] QT+designer or GTK+GLade

[Gerard Gorman]

Colm Buckley wrote:
> 
> Well, despite your dislike of C++, I really think it's a far better
> language to write GUI applications in than C; the class structures of
> the language, combined with a well-designed toolkit, map themselves
> very neatly onto GUI concepts.

goddamit..so much for easy options

> QT is a little more portable then GTK.  This probably isn't
> significant.
Ya..that's the thing. I understand that qt would work under windows? Not
that that influences my decision..I never tolerated windows people
anyhow *grin*

> 
> > The only concern is that QT, while it is GPL friendly, it is not
> > itself GPL. So is there a chance that they will change their
> > licensing a couple of years down the line (thus shafting me).
> 
> The Qt Free Edition *is* GPL - you have the choice of either using the
> QPL or the GPL when using it.  See
> http://www.trolltech.com/products/download/freelicense/ for details.
> They won't be able to change this license retrospectively.

ok...that's cool. Though they could cease bringing out up to date
version of the free edition...(so I'm a compulsive paranoid ;)

hmm...it looks like gtk is what I will go for.


Thanks for the help!
g