Re: Motif or GNOME? (semi-repost)
Hiya
>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.
I've never done any Motif coding, but I understand that you still
have to use a fair bit of xlib in your code - it's not OO, although
there are wrapper classes available.
>Am I correct in understanding that KDE is C++ and GNOME is not? Not
KDE is written using QT, which is written in C++. KDE adds quite a
few OO libraries to make it easier to write applications.
GNOME is written in C (for the most part), using the GTK library.
GTK is a C library, and is a wrapper around GDK, the drawing library.
GDK is a wrapper around xlib. GTK-- is an OO wrapper around GTK;
there are also VDK and ? (the RedHat project by Havoc Pennington,
can't remember its name).
>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).
OpenGL is nice, dead easy to get good results with.
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C-YA
Jon
<http://www.dookie.demon.co.uk>
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