Hi.
I want to start programming in X. But in what? I know two main graphic
toolkits.
GTK and Qt. Which is better?
GTK:
+ opensource
- GTK can't Unicode. I would like to write in czech language with
czech characters, which aren't included in ASCII or in iso-8859-1. I
heard something about Pango project.
- I heard, that GTK is very slow.

BTW: What's the difference between GTK and GTK+?

Qt:
+ good looking
- non-opensource

Could you write here something about these things? Am I wrong?

I like programming in C++ rather than in C, so I would prefer object
oriented toolkit. Is there any?

Thanks a lot.

Ok, first of all QT is an OOP tool kit, written entirely in and for C++.

And, QT IS open source for developers. If you intend to release your programs under GPL or even keep it to yourself, you are free to use QT.

And, as an aside, there is gtkmm, which is a C++ interface for GTK+, which I have not used, but have heard as good.

Of course, but I meant that Qt is not opensource itself. It's not very important, but who knows?

Qt is open source, the Linux version is released under the GPL.

Gtk does support Unicode very well using Pango, and isn't noticeably slower than Qt.

Alex

be aware about differences in versions, i've always avoided qt like a rabid dog, but the possibllities and features of Gtk compared to Gtk2 are so big. Make sure you know which version these limitiations are actually referring to.

I didn't know it. It's good. It seems that I'll choose qt3.
BTW: What's the difference between GTK and GTK+

There is no difference, Gtk+ is the full name, but it's often shortened to just Gtk The C++ bindings to Gtk+ are rather confusingly called Gtk-- or Gtkmm

Alex