Re: Sun de-emphasizes GNOME devel platform, supports KDE apps
Maksim Orlovich <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Pupeno wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday September 17 2003 00:08, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > I'm not saying that *I* am, afterall, I've been using KDE since right > > after 1.0 hit the streets... I'm just wondering about why there does > > seem to be a preference for GTK in development (what the topic was > > about). > I think this may be because GTK is natively C and KDE is natively C++ (yeah, > there are bindings... but...). > And since there's a lot of people doing C programming instead of C++, they end > up picking GTK, just because they're more confortable with C, or in a lot of > cases because they doesn't know C++. I've heard someone saying 'if you're I think this is quite an artifact of the Unix hacker society, though. Very little commercial end-user software is developed in C (embedded is different, of course) Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.