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walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Sun Jul 1 01:54:20 PDT 2012



Am 30.06.2012 15:31, schrieb Glynn Clements:
> 
> Alan Corey wrote:
> 
>> Well, you see, I just really dislike C++.  I've tried on and off for
>> years and I just can't get it through my head.  I want a toolkit I can
>> program in C.  FLTK seems great, same with GTK, but not without C++.
>> I'm familiar with OO programming concepts from Java, Delphi and Perl
>> but C++?  Uh-uh.
> 
> I would have thought that GTK would fit the bill.
> 
>>> I wouldn't advise putting too much effort into Xt/Xaw stuff; they've
>>> fallen so far into disuse that if X.org shipped a totally
>>> non-functional version of one of those libraries, it might take a year
>>> before anyone actually noticed.
>>
>> Wouldn't that break a bunch of things that rely on them?
> 
> Such as? The typical Linux desktop environment doesn't have any
> Xt-based applications; Gnome uses GTK and KDE uses Qt.
> 
> Okay, Xt isn't quite dead yet (e.g. XEmacs (which I'm using at this
> moment) requires it), but it's quite definitely "legacy" at this
> point.
> 

FYI
perhaps this is correct for desktop but there are several applications
in the wild that are used regular that require Xt.


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