How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

[Eric Brunel]

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:01:51 +0100, Dan Lenski <dlenski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tk 8.4 appears to use native Win32 widgets under Cygwin and native
> WinXP.

It seems to depend on the widget type, and on what you call native... For  
example, tk menus are definitely the native ones; tk scrollbars are the  
native ones, but with the Win2k look (no XP look available yet); tk  
buttons do not seem to be the native ones, as they don't act like "normal"  
Windows buttons.

> But it definitely doesn't use GTK widgets under Ubuntu with
> Gnome desktop.

You seem to imply that GTK is "native" on Linux. It isn't, as can be seen  
with the echoes of the "holy war" between Gnome and KDE that we often see  
around here. As an aside, I personnally work on Linux and don't even use  
any of these environments (both are too much Windows-like to my taste...).

> Is there a way to get it to do so?

Not yet. But tcl/tk 8.5 will include the Tile extension including new  
themable widgets. See here:
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/unix.html

There is also a Tile/QT extension that allows the Tile widgets to use the  
QT library. See here:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40

AFAIK, nothing equivalent for GTK yet.

HTH
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