Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:37:43 -0800
Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:49, Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:04:28 +0800
> > Star Liu <minxinjianxin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source
> >> platform and develop tools. I'm also a web developer so I'm interested
> >> in gecko, and know that gecko is also able to build desktop
> >> applications by XUL, not only display html files. But it seems gtk+ is
> >> the more normal way to develop desktop applications, then what's the
> >> superior of the two methods? thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > gtk+ is not ideal for cross platform because unless things changes it's not
> > in great shape under windows.
>
> It does seem a bit harder to do cross-platform with GTK than with QT, but it
> is certainly doable.
>
I never said it was not doable. I don't remember the reference now about at
least about a year back it wasn't considered completely stable under windows
(it was in the considerations of one project or another why to use something
else, possibly lyx, but it eludes my memory now).
For an open source or personal project it's not much of an issue (it should be
stable enough for these), for a commercial product the requirements are
different.
I don't know the current state of affairs. My coding is usually at the
algorithm level so I don't care too much about the GUI.
BTW, for things other than GUI the op may want to have a look at boost.
> <snip>
>
> > There is also qt, if things haven't changes it has either a gpl lisence that
> > you don't pay for or a commercial license if you want to sell the software.
>
> QT is now tri-licensed: Commercial, GPL (v3), LGPL (v2.1, allows GPLv2)
>
> http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly Clowers
>
>
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