[SOLVED] GTK to Qt to TK to FLTK?

baldheaded-yeti · 02-14-2012, 06:31 AM

This probably should go in programming, but is it feasible to change widget sets in a program by changing it if you have the source code?

i.e; Could you change GIMP to a TK/Motif application if you didn't want GTK dependencies?

Thanks!

acid_kewpie · 02-14-2012, 06:43 AM

if the toolkits are capable of providing the equivalent functionality, then certainly. Could be a huge amount of work though, especially when you're going deeper into libraries like glib2 under gtk2 which are providing a lot more than just UI.

baldheaded-yeti · 02-18-2012, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

if the toolkits are capable of providing the equivalent functionality, then certainly. Could be a huge amount of work though, especially when you're going deeper into libraries like glib2 under gtk2 which are providing a lot more than just UI.

Thanks!

I understand that glib2 is more than a widget set, I really believe
that a program should be interchangeable between desktop enviorments and not
dependent on seperate libraries.

Wishful thinking.

acid_kewpie · 02-18-2012, 04:42 AM

hmm? so you believe there should only be one? The code has to come from somewhere...

baldheaded-yeti · 02-18-2012, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

hmm? so you believe there should only be one? The code has to come from somewhere...

One source code with interchangeable widgets/tool kits?

Suppose you don't like GNOME or KDE?

Then what?

Is there such a thing as a neutral desktop?

acid_kewpie · 02-18-2012, 05:04 AM

you don't need gnome to use gtk2 / glib apps. There are ways you can develop an app that do integrate more tightly, but the actual required libraries to run a gtk2 app really aren't offensive at all.

baldheaded-yeti · 02-18-2012, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

you don't need gnome to use gtk2 / glib apps. There are ways you can develop an app that do integrate more tightly, but the actual required libraries to run a gtk2 app really aren't offensive at all.

I'm using XFCE 4.8 with no complaints but, I think there should be a "vanilla" desktop for use as a
standard.

acid_kewpie · 02-19-2012, 07:55 AM

Some people don't like "vanilla" though. As an analogy that's quite interesting I think as the Vanilla flower is a Mexican Orchid, and is actually a LONG way form being "plain".

I don't understand how you could ever identify a standard toolkit outside of an arbitrary decision. Why not just use gtk2 as "vanilla"? Just as good as any other... A "vanilla" kernel is easily defined as the unmodified source code from kernel.org etc, but there's no such "origin" to work with with other software libraries, which is pretty much the point of open source development to be able to create alternatives to compete or compliment. And of course, a vanilla Linux kernel is only plain wrt Linux. You back up another level, and it's Linux OR BSD OR AIX etc... why can't we just have one standard UNIX?