Future direction (and a rant).

[Angus Carr]

For what it is worth, there are cross-platform toolkits aplenty out there that
would let us use the same code base on Windows and in a variety of flavours of
Unices.

Angus.

On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, Matt.Wilkie wrote:
> >for graphics, or it could use gtk, or Qt, or perhaps something 
> >else.  I am not really happy with any of the available options, 
> >though it seems that gtk (or gtk++?) has substantial momementum 
> >in the open source community, and some reasonable hope of porting 
> >to Windows (which I consider important).
> 
> I've been using the Windows version of the Gimp (which runs on 
> gtk; gtk+ for themes) for just about a year now. Development 
> bugs aside, I'm quite happy with it. IIRC, win32 AbiWord uses 
> gtk too. I've not used any win32 Qt programs so I don't know how 
> they compare. An item to note is that only X11 Qt is libre  
> software - the Win32 Qt GUI toolkit is not.
> 
> -matt