Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:18:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:18:37 -0400 Received: from mta01bw.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.78]:48860 "EHLO mta01bw.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:18:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA43C3A.2060608@bigpond.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:24:58 +1000 From: Brendan J Simon Reply-To: brendan.simon@bigpond.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Zippel CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , kbuild-devel Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: linux kernel conf 0.8 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2194 Lines: 54 Roman Zippel wrote: >>But the fact that xconfig depends on QT is going to make some people hate >>it. >> >> >This should be rather easily fixable, but it has to be done by someone who >is more familiar with whatever prefered toolkit. I'm familiar with QT and >it's absolutely great to get quickly reasonable results, if someone wants >something else I gladly will help, but I can't do it myself. >The interface to the back end is quite simple so it should be no real >problem to add a different user interface. > This is a difficult one. GUI's toolkits are a bit of religion (fundamentalist types too). I like and use GNOME. KDE looks good too but I steered away from it in the early days due to the Qt licensing. I've heard rumors that the new license is GPL compatible but I get the feeling that it is still not squeeky clean. A lot of people don't like the larger resources for these desktop environments. The most common GUI toolkits used in Linux would be GTK, Qt, Lesstif/Motif and Xaw (I've probably missed some). Xaw will work on just about every platform I think, not sure about the others on non linux platforms apart from lesstiff. I personally believe in cross platform GUI toolkits and use wxWindows for this. I really like wxpython (GTK and MSW only) for quick development. I believe there are python wrappers to most toolkits (Qt, GTK, etc). As you can see there are soooooo many guis to choose/use and everyone has there favourite. I suggest that the real work be done outside of the GUI program. ie. seperate GUI and application guts as much as possible. I would use python as the main language but C or even C++ could be used instead as a lot of people hate interpreters, or hate python (prefer perl, php or something else). I'm pretty sure there is no one solution and it comes down to the politics and preferences of the final decision makers up the heirarchy. Good luck, Brendan Simon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/