GUI toolkits [Was: Re: XLibre in Debian]

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:03:25 +0300

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:43:15AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:19:48AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> > Wojciech Lipinski wrote:
> > > As a non-IT person
> > > who is involved in development of specialized simulation software
> > > (solar energy engineering), I feel uncertain about investing my time
> > > in solutions compatible with X11 or with Wayland.
> > 
> > Hello Wojciech,
> > I don't see why you should worry about that at all.
> > You need not develop an application that talks the X11 or Wayland
> > protocol directly. Nobody does that, it would be like reinventing the
> > wheel. If you use one of the most common graphical toolkits (e.g.,
> > Gtk+ or Qt), it is my understanding that they support both protocols
> > transparently.
> 
> Not Wojcieh here, but... if you could propose something which is less
> of a monster than Gtk of Qt, I'd be all ears!
> 
> Nearly 20 years ago I made a couple of Gtk applications (Gtk2 back
> then), one of which is still in use. Having followed Gtk's development,
> nowadays I'd pass, thankyouverymuch.
> 
> Today, I think I'd go with Tk or something.

Well, there is always Fltk, and some people would also mention wxWindows.

G'luck,
Peter

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