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GTK+ bloat?

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-06 14:02

So, i recently came back to GUI programming.
Not being a particular friend of GUI, i still had a bit enthusiasm about GUI programming and learning the things associated with this.

But once i go to the GTK+ reference page and WTF is this shit, it so fucking bloated, it has a shitload of widgets. Dont get me even started on the functions, are they really needed?
And why in the fuck cant scrollbars be attached to windows by default? Why in the fucking shit would one do this explicitly?

And the fucking Gtk+ tutorial is terrible! Why do they not include pictures so one can see what is actually being done?

Anyways, Should i use QT instead(or maybe even use good old win32 api on XP)?

Also, share your experiences with GUIs and UIs in general, im eager to hear your stories.

Name: Anonymous 2010-09-06 22:14

>>1
There are really only two different GUI toolkits that suck less than the other toolkits.  One is Qt, the other is Cocoa.  Qt "isn't so bad once you get past Moc".  Cocoa is much better except it only works on two platforms (Objective C is surprisingly nice, and you write most of your app in C anyway).  (You can also use GNUstep, but...)

You don't want to do GUI stuff in C, you'll have to write everything in callback functions which_sucks(gpointer data) { struct myobj *obj = data; }

It starts to suck much, much more when you get away from C/C#/C++/Objective-C.

And GTK ain't bloated just because it has things you don't want.  I don't think my car's bloated just because it has seats I never sit in.

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