Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:16:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: (Alexander Langer) <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: libh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Qt vs GTK Message-ID: <XFMail.000717121626.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20000717123655.A10197@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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On 17-Jul-00 Alexander Langer wrote: > Hello geeks! > > Does one of you guys have Qt clue? > I've read MANY lines of code for the last two days, and it seems, that > the only reason why libh uses this ugly Box-stuff instead of absolute > positioning is, that Qt uses this technique. > > However, I find that QUITE ugly. > In fact, I strongly believe, TVision is broken, because TVision > natively only supports absolute position (with x-pos,y-pos that is), > and the hack to transform that into this boxlayout scheme is broken. > > ( I can be wrong here !) > > However, since we must switch to Qt2 anyways, which has an > imcompatible API, we must change stuff anyways. > > This made me think: Hey, why do we stick to Qt? > GTK is much nicer (personal opinion) and we could use absolute > positioning. I don't care if we have both Qt and GTK backends (we _can_ have both, btw), but I don't want to do absolute positioning. The nicest GUI toolkit I've ever used was the Java AWT and Swing, because Java has these spiffy things called layout managers that allow you to just create a button and throw it in a layout and voila, it all gets sized and positioned for you. This makes it easy to write, and I'd like the same ability in our Tcl scripts to make it easy to write scripts w/o having to worry about laying widgets out by hand. > This way, we could rework the whole HUI stuff to use positioning, and > not this ugly boxlayout crap. > This would make the whole thing MUCH cleaner. > > This of course means, that I'd have to break the whole thing :-) > I'd like to make a tag on the source before this, and then start work. > Or something. Maybe I'll also set up a new repository here for me or > maybe on usw4 (?). > I of course need help with this one. > > Opinions? > > Alex > -- > cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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