Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 5th Jun 2003 06:49 UTC
One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn't have the polish or stability of a .0 release. But one year has passed. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Update: Screenshots inside.
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>goto gtkmm.sf.net and read up about gtkmm. There is nothing wrong
>with the kit per-say, I was interested in why there isn't a move from qt
> to gtkmm. Are there features missing from it that are available with qt?
Before settling on Qt, I tried using gtk and gtkmm. Using the C API from C+ is a pain since you can't use a member as function callback (since C++ implicitly passes a 'this' pointer), and gtkmm was bordering on unusable (although it's probably a lot better by now). I see from the gtkmm web page that there are a few applications written with it, but I notice that 'terraform' has switched from gtkmm to gtk.
I found Qt to be a revelation - the whole toolkit is consistant, easy to use and well documented. Things like the signal/slot mechanism make it very easy to connect together different objects, and qmake makes makefile handling a doddle. qtdesigner is very good, too :-)
Some people like to spend all their time arguing about the licence (even though the X version is GPL), but as a programmer I use the toolkit that makes me more productive.
--Jon