Future direction - GRASS GUI

[Fraxinus]

Qt:

I think the political issues on Qt and linux are solved, arent they? Isnt
KDE GPL:ed? But on the other hand, Qt on windows is not free (if I remember
it right).


// Fraxinus
                      <fraxinus at home.se>



----- Original Message -----
From: Federico Di Gregorio <fog at debian.org>
To: Pavol Cvengros <cvengros at gssr.sk>
Cc: <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Future direction - GRASS GUI


| Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Pavol Cvengros's letter:
| >     - C++ : why not? seems very practical for GUI development
|
| only if you use Qt. C++ is, IMHO, bloated.
|
| >     - Qt : same question: why not? it is a good library to program in,
| > can be used for rapid development. It is safe (no overflows and other
| > nasty issues). It is portable to many platforms and so are applications
| > which rely solely on the library functions and ot system-specific
| > libraries.
|
| I agree. I personally like best Gtk (portable on Unix and Windows, don't
| know about MacOS.) Note that, if I remebber correctly, Qt licence has some
| problems when linking with GPLed code (and GRASS is now GPLed, isn't it?)
|
| >     I rise these questions because since Christmas I was independently
| > working (at that time I wasn't in the mailing-list) on a GUI for GRASS
| > (I don't like Tcl/Tk ;-)) using Qt 2.0.2 and C++ under Linux.
|
| nice. but, if you are interested in GUI building give a look at
| Gtk/GLADE/libglade (and bindings for perl/python/C++/ObjC/...).
| You'll be surprised.
|
| ciao,
| federico
|
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