Re: preferred GUI toolkit for FreeBSD?

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Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
Date
20 Mar 2002 16:41:48
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Re: preferred GUI toolkit for FreeBSD?
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j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:

> There aren't a lot of options, but I was wondering if the GTK toolkit is
> a safe bet. I've decided to learn a native toolkit rather than Java
> first, unless something major changes my mind in the near future.
>
> Any other options I should consider?

If you want something that's not copyleft, look into IV Tools at
http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/ and if you also care to experiment
with something with some interesting modern concepts but which stopped
development before getting lots of widgets, etc., check out Fresco at
http://www.eupedia.org/fresco.html (The introductory treatises and
docs are well-written and interesting even if you ignore the code.)

(I'm guessing that UNIX would be in a much better state if the X people
had not stopped work on Fresco. We probably wouldn't have had most of
the mostly wasteful competitions between CDE/GNOME/KDE and C/C++ and X11
toolkits. Or at least better competitions between better designs. And
it would have been long ago available for M$Win/UNIX cross-platform
application development. The experimental version has been since at
least '98.)

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