Le 28/11/2015 16:29, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> Gtk and Qt are meant for applications who target the general public, which have to be
shiny and stylish to be adopted.
So an application to connect over wifi isn't an application that
targets the
general public?
Take it easy Jonathan. It's not me who raised the question of
having a lightweight network manager. As I said many times on this list,
I'm perfectly happy with wpa_gui, which is based on Qt. But if
lightweight is the goal, then it should use a lightweight toolkit or
curses. With curses, you also reduce the number of dependencies. This is
simple logic. Now, if you tell me Gtk+2 is lightweight, I believe you, I
didn't look myself.
Also, what are some examples of actively maintained GUI toolkits that
don't
target a general audience?
The audience of Linux does not restrict to email, browsing, and
office suite, that is end users of shiny applications. There is another
kind of audience: people who need to develop their own custom
applications; these people don't care of look and feel, but they care
with development time.
I developped around 2000 an oscilloscope emulator as a debug tool
for custom waveform digitizers used in a Particle Physics detector; this
is my only experience with a GUI toolkit.
Go look at http://xforms-toolkit.org/screenshots/ and you will see
a collection of screenshots and explanations of what these applications
are doing. Please go have a look. It's a short but interesting visit.
Didier
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