Re: gEDA: Trolltech introduce dual licensing for windows with qt4.

[Bill Wilson <billw-at-NOSPAMdslextreme_dot_com>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:11:41 -0500 (EST)
sdb@cloud9.net (Stuart Brorson) wrote:

> > Anyway, I hope to have something anybody interested can evaluate before
> > too many more weeks and in the meantime, here's a current screenshot
> > (using the H20-gtk-Saphire theme):
> > 
> >     http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/pcb-gtk.png
> 
> You are godlike!  Thanks for this great work!

Well, I'm going to go tell my friends!

> My only request:  Please comment the code as much as you can so that
> us mortals can go in there and make little tweaks.   I look forward to
> finally going in to PCB and fixing all the little things which annoy
> me!  I haven't been able to do that so far because I found the X11
> stuff so daunting.

OK, if I disappoint, make sure and tell me and I'll go back in for
another try.

> BTW:  I remain in favor of GTK as the "quasi-official" gEDA GUI
> toolkit if only because it is already entrenched with gEDA/gaf, and
> managing the hell of proliferating libraries is a very important
> for usablilty.  This is particularly important for newbies who can't
> be expected to install and manage two different GUI libraries.  (They
> can barely handle one library already -- think about all the confusion
> we would face if two libraries were used!!!!)

I've always liked Gtk because it provides a porting layer from the
ground up starting with glib.  In my other projects I've been able
to avoid auto build tools and simply use pkg-config in makefiles...
although this could open another discussion which I'll bow out of
right now.

Bill

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