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Which GUI?

Gerrit Holl gerrit.holl at pobox.com
Mon Feb 21 10:30:16 EST 2000 
<quote name="Nicolas Devillard" date="951097670">
> 
> 
> --- Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > > - Does not need ANY extra library to compile, i.e.
> > > knows how to talk to the underlying windowing
> > > library underneath,
> > > whether it is X11, Motif, Windows or Mac.
> > 
> > This does not exist.
> 
> Tcl/Tk does just that.

Tk *is* an extra library you'll newed to compile/install.

> > > - Clean design, if possible OO.
> > 
> > All GUI's have this feature, As Far As I Saw So Far.
> 
> Tcl/Tk is not OO (at least not in its base version).

Tkinter *is* OO, and the fact the underlying Tcl/Tk isn't bothers
me a lot.

> [...]
> > > The only problem I have
> > > with Tkinter is that it is truly
> > > Python/Tkinter/Tcl/Tk, which
> > > means a whole bunch of software to install
> > > before you
> > > actually can get a single widget on screen.
> > 
> > On Windows, this is needed for every GUI. On Linux,
> > GTK and QT are most likely already installed.
> 
> 
> What about Solaris? HPUX? IRIX? AIX? OSF/1 or the
> latest True64? They do not come with fancy GUI
> stuff pre-installed, only X11.

I know.

> "Most-likely installed" is not enough. It is either
> there or not. X11 is always there on Unixes, otherwise
> the user would not even bother about GUIs.

I agree.

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regards,
Gerrit.

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