Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 11th Jan 2006 23:23 UTC
This article, the second in a three-part series titled "GTK+ fundamentals," introduces you to programming with GTK+. It analyzes a sample GTK+ application written in C, then shows that same application written in Python and C#. Finally, it discusses some useful tools that can help you develop better applications faster with GTK+.
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2005-07-07
And no, every app does not look out of place on Windows. Apple apps are even designed to look like Windows Luna/Classic, so that's a moot point. Microsoft's poor consistency with regards to Office/Media Player are something that I wish was corrected, but you can't have everything.
I agree. Only 99.9% apps on Windows look out of space. Calculator and Notepad follow HIG as they should.
Then again why does my OSX look like a color palette without any taste in colors? 5 different toolkits. Counting only Apple ones. Counting others. Wow. My desktop looks almost like average vegetable soup.
Again why do Windows.Forms look different than basic common controls? And why isn't fancy look working trough all WinXP and all applications.
So here on WinXP desktop I have for example WinXP, Firefox, Thunderbird, AVG, WMP, Pinacle burning software, MSN, Office 2003, Eclipse, Photoshop. Not even two of them are consistant (except Firefox and Thunderbird). Hell would probably froze if at least half of apps would support even basic Window Color.
GTK apps, on the other hand, DO attempt to look like Windows, but do it poorly.
WRONG!!!!
Talking about Wimp or Gtk here? Wimp is separate project that tries to do what you say. Gtk isn't. Read the fine print and then try to be funny.
http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/
GTK-Wimp ("Windows impersonator") is a GTK+ theme that integrates well with the Microsoft Windows desktop environment. GTK-Wimp was created by Raymond Penners, based upon code from Redmond95 by Owen Taylor and Nativewin by Evan Martin. It is now maintained by Dominic Lachowicz.
http://gtk.org/
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites.