General GTK questions

Onemessedupjedi · 12-04-2003, 07:44 PM

From what I understand GTK+ is a part of C right?
Is that what I see when I tell kdevelop to make a simple gui program?
What's the best gui code to use for compatability on both kde and gnome?

llama_meme · 12-04-2003, 08:25 PM

Gtk+ is a library written in C -- it's not part of the C language itself, or part of the C standard library.

KDE uses Qt, not Gtk+, so KDevelop won't involve Gtk+ in any way.

KDE and GNOME use different GUI toolkits (Qt and Gtk+ respectively), so you can't write an application that is both a KDE and a GNOME application. However, you can run GNOME applications on a KDE desktop and vice versa.

Alex

Onemessedupjedi · 12-04-2003, 10:44 PM

ah, thank you

. Suprisingly the help files never put it that clearly.

I pretty much need to use kdevelop because I'm trying to teach myself from the help docs and I would like to have a hand with that. When I create a KDE app in kdevelop it has kprinter.h and qpaint.h libraries, will the program only run on kde if there are proprietary kwhatever.h libraries or are they not proprietary?

llama_meme · 12-08-2003, 01:36 PM

All of KDE is open source (www.kde.org and developer.kde.org)

Alex

acid_kewpie · 12-08-2003, 01:39 PM

don't do it! don't give in to nasty qt.... http://gtk.org with http://anjuta.sf.net kickass

llama_meme · 12-09-2003, 05:22 AM

I have to say I (slightly) prefer Gtk+ as well, but just for a bit of balance, Qt is a great toolkit too, and if that's what you've started with I think you should stick with it.

Alex