RE: Gtk ?

From: Faine, Valeri <fine_at_bnl.gov>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:12:53 -0500


> Hi Daniele,
 

> Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
 

> > Hello, i have seen on the mailing list archive some discussion about
> > introducing an alternative gui and render based on Gtk-- back in 2001.
> > There was any progres in this topic ?
 

> no.
  

> >
> > I saw Qt work but but i think GTK is a more promising toolkit
 

> This is a "holy war" question "Qt vs GTK", let's skip it.
> I'd like to mention few "minuses" for both of them
> - Qt is not GPL and not free for windows.

  The statement is NOT accurate
  Read http://root.bnl.gov/QtRoot/QtRoot.html#free for further information.   (Just 2 cents :-)

> Even under unixes
> "enteprise edition" costs a lot of money.
> http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/pricing.html

   It certainly pays (if you are professional :-) off.

>
> i'll be glad to help testing and coding.

Can you elaborate a little bit? Did your statement suggest you have some "free" manpower just for Gtk? or for the robust flexible, powerful, cross platform etc, etc, etc . . . Root Gui?-)

  Cheers Valeri Received on Tue Mar 22 2005 - 19:13:06 MET

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