Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Jul 2007 06:18 UTC, submitted by Sander Jansen
Jeroen van der Zijp, the author of Fox Toolkit, has kindly given kerkythea.net
an interview. The Fox Toolkit is a platform independent GUI that has matured over the last years to become one of the fastest and well structured APIs.
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2006-10-08
"I think inconsistent (with the rest of the OS) would be a better world
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Don't confuse OS and GUI. :-)
Famous quotation: "I don't like the Linux file systems - the pictures are too big!" (The term "pictures" refers to icons.)
Inconsistency usually does not matter to the end user. While you may judge from an aesthetic point of view, look & feel usually is very user dependant. Look at Mac OS X, at all these "Windows", at the various Linux and UNIX GUIs and desktops. Users keep using them, even if some applications use others than the "standard" toolkits or violate the "standard" way of doing things withing a particular system.
"Anyway, while I prefer other toolkits over FOX, I admire the amount of work the author has done. Keep it going!"
Personally, I find FOX with its bindings interesting, but actually won't use it because I prefer Gtk + C, or GNUstep + ObjC. Surely, FOX may be a good solution for ressource limited systems. Especially the cross-platform sector is interesting if you don't want to use Java and do only consider UNIX/Linux and "Windows" (allthough Mac OS X variants are possible, too).