From: Bauduin Raphael <rb@...>
Date: 2005-01-17T03:51:09+09:00
Subject: Re: which gui toolkit

Gandhi wrote:
> Sorry if this question comes up often, 
> Which GUI toolkit do you use (and why)?
> 

I'm developing on Linux and targetting it and other Free unixes, and my 
development is under GPL. I enjoy using Qt and KDE bindings. It's making 
development really easy.

For example, in the next logtails version, there'll be highlighting of
patterns in the logs displayed. Coding that highlighting feature was 
done in 5 minutes, and I had never done it before. Qt is very clean and 
well documented.

I also like the KDE infrastructure put in place. You get a lot of things 
  for nearly no code: config files, user customisable task bars and ui, 
network transparency, DCOP, KParts, .... KDE documentation is not as 
good as the Qt one though.

Two things to keep in mind when looking at Qt: the licensing of Qt, and 
the fact that Trolltech seems to be very focused on C++ and not a lot on 
bindings for languages as Ruby.

Raph