Re: Info about toolkits

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 02:55:36AM +0200, Sergio Tortosa Benedito wrote:
> El 31/8/2015 1:48, "Joel Roth" <[email protected]> escribió:
> >
> > Sergio Tortosa Benedito wrote:
> > > Well, though this may be dangerous in other places, I think it should
> > > be okay here, so I want to know do you have any information about
> > > toolkits? What I'm interested is argumented reasons about the
> > > advantages of one toolkit over another, I'm really interested about
> > > so... anything I could read about them would be awesome.
> >
> > I Sergio,
> >
> > I would suggest a toolkit you can write from a dynamic
> > language!
> >
> Hmmm... Maybe it's because it's so late but this leaves me confused, do not
> all major toolkits (EFL, QT, GTK) have this in one way or another? The only
> one I doubt it has this is GNUstep.

EFL has something called Embryo, a small language
https://docs.enlightenment.org/stable/efl/embryo_main.html

I was thinking of usable from perl, python, ruby and
friends, that would give you the benefit of other awesome
libraries in those ecosystems.

I know of perl GTK modules, not used them.  Perl has Tk, and
that I've done most with. Based on Motif, is not considered
beautiful, anymore. I believe it's possible to chain the
event loops of several GUI toolkits, if you want to use
more than one.

Tcl/Tk community is still vibrant, gitk, the git tree
viewing app, is written in Tcl/Tk.

> This could be also a joke in which case... Rather than a dynamic language,
> maybe it would be a good idea it had bash support. :).

I studied the WxWidget libraries, but didn't actually
write anything myself.  

Here is something interesting, WxGlade, for designing
WxWidget GTK applications, that can spit out GUI layout code
in Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML
resources) code. 

http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/

A recent criticism, was that evolution of a graphic
libraries can cause otherwise well-running applications
to rot, due to failure to port to latest graphics
libraries.

So, longevity/maintenance is an issue. 

cheers,

Joel

> > > Here are my two cents:
> > > < I wanted to post a link to an GTK ex-develepor in the devuan list
> > > talking about why GTK is inferior, but I  couldn't find, if I happen
> > > to find it I'll make sure to post it>
> > >
> > > BTW: Joel, I didn't knew you were also in the Devuan mailing list ^^
> > > (just searched around and found one of your e-mails)
> >
> > You rang?
> >
> > The thread you're looking for is here:
> >
> > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150724.023004.1e67db26.en.html
> >
> > I think maybe this message:
> >
> > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150724.034131.d7334fd2.en.html
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Joel
> > --
> > Joel Roth
> >
> Yup, that one it's, thank you,Joel
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