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Date:      20 Mar 2002 16:41:08 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: preferred GUI toolkit for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <t2adt292hn.dt2@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20020320141702.B91598@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
References:  <20020320141702.B91598@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:

> There aren't a lot of options, but I was wondering if the GTK toolkit is
> a safe bet.  I've decided to learn a native toolkit rather than Java
> first, unless something major changes my mind in the near future.
> 
> Any other options I should consider?

If you want something that's not copyleft, look into IV Tools at
http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/ and if you also care to experiment
with something with some interesting modern concepts but which stopped
development before getting lots of widgets, etc., check out Fresco at
http://www.eupedia.org/fresco.html  (The introductory treatises and
docs are well-written and interesting even if you ignore the code.)

(I'm guessing that UNIX would be in a much better state if the X people
had not stopped work on Fresco.  We probably wouldn't have had most of
the mostly wasteful competitions between CDE/GNOME/KDE and C/C++ and X11
toolkits.  Or at least better competitions between better designs.  And
it would have been long ago available for M$Win/UNIX cross-platform
application development.  The experimental version has been since at
least '98.)

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