[LAD] GTK+ vs QT for new Open Source Project.

[David Robillard]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 21:25 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello Ken!
>    I can contribute little, but it may still push you in one direction.
>    I've seen both some QT-code and understood it and I've seen some gtk+, which 
> I had more problems understanding. So I think QT might be easier to implement. 
> Also QT has a lot by itself, nice helpers.
>    GTK now may be as easy to write, just me not understanding it, I'm not too 
> bright at it though. But GTK is good to use for blind people, because of the 
> Gnome people pushing some accessibiloity stuff. Also gtk and the glib have to 
> offer many things, which might come in handy.
>    One last remark and I drop off; GTK+ might not be that easy to read for me, 
> because GTK is originally in C and gtk+ - as I understand - was kind of a 
> complex wrapper for it.
>    Kindest regards
>           Julien

Gtkmm is quite nice for the more C++ minded.  Much nicer standard C++
style than the cracked out preprocessed pseudo-C++ insanity that is Qt,
at any rate.

The documentation is pretty crap in some places though.

-dr