Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)

[Bill <minorseventh@mail.earthlink.net>]

Thanks Hadess. I wasn't aware of these issues. BTW, I did not mention 
that I will be using the application only under X Windows 
environments, and I guess what I was really asking was how does Motif 
compare to GNOME or KDE? Why is Motif (relatively) crappy? That's 
what I'm after.

Am I correct in understanding that KDE is C++ and GNOME is not? Not 
clear what you meant. I use C++.

The Windows port might be nice, but GNOME doesn't have it?

Also, not sure what you mean by paying money? OpenGL is a protocol 
and graphics library available on most platforms for doing graphics, 
when possible, it directly calls graphics hardware, so it is fast, 
and a very powerful library for doing complex graphics fairly easily 
(once you learn it).

Thanks for your reply,
Bill




> Gtk and Gnome are very nice to write apps with, and Gtk+ has been ported
> to quite a few platforms, although the ports are still in development in
> Gtk+ 2.0. Gtk+ has a GL widget called GtkGLarea, and C++ bindings (Gtk--
> is the most advanced afaik)
>
> You might want to look at Qt if your app is going to be GPL, it has a
> Windows port, and is C++ mainly (although Python bindings exist I've
> heard).
> I don't know about OpenGL, but if your app is not GPL, you'd have to pay
> big money.
>
> Of course Motif is out of question, as it is X-Windows only and crappy.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>
>  >
>  > Thanks for your help,
>  > Bill
>  >
>  > --Motif or GNOME?  (semi-repost)
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