> Heh, I'm only a novice programmer, and
I'm already lazy :)
since this thread is so GTK+-centric i'll chime in and say ive found nothing i like
for easily creating customized/flexible GUIs more than Tcl/Tk and Ruby-on-Rails. both
tools allow me to do exactly what i want with minimal fuss - i still dont know anything
about C++ memory management and am grateful for ways to easily bring my ideas to life
without an advanced CS degree.
once going beyond sortable lists and selectorboxes, youre going to end up with some kind
of canvas, at which point TCL is very mature, and Gecko/XulRunner with its new
<Canvas> object is turning into nice option. or even python/ruby bindings to
Cairo...
cousins like ksycoca, kdeinit, klauncher etc. But this
isn't true with
gnome.
this is unfortunately true. if you are running openbox, or evilWM or what not, you might
as well be running KDE if you are ever going to us a KDE app. for example amarok will take
15 seconds to startup on the latest machine as all sorts of crap daemons loaded:
root 14912 0.0 0.5 71936 11292 ? Ss 09:40 0:00 kdeinit Running...
root 14915 0.0 0.1 69684 3156 ? S 09:40 0:00 dcopserver [kdeinit]
--nosid
root 14917 0.0 0.4 72404 8956 ? S 09:40 0:00 klauncher [kdeinit]
root 14919 0.1 1.0 97624 21360 ? S 09:40 0:59 kded [kdeinit]
root 14935 0.0 0.6 75868 12708 ? S 09:41 0:00 kaccess [kdeinit]
root 14938 0.0 0.6 74832 13016 ? S 09:41 0:00 ksmserver [kdeinit]
gnome apps do nothing of the sort