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I actually like writing GTK way more then Qt. I like the fact it is C and easily integrates with any language I wish to use. Though I use Qt, the Mac support o

I actually like writing GTK way more then Qt. I like the fact it is C and easily integrates with any language I wish to use. Though I use Qt, the Mac support on GTK is terrible at best. Windows support is even worse (or non-existent) which makes me question their "cross platform gui" title. If I was to suggest a method, I would suggest using each platforms GUI language and make a backend in something cross platform.

KAMiKAZOW 12y ago
GTK runs on Linux with X11, Wayland, and probably even some BSDs. Technically that qualifies as cross-platform.
- dubcanada 12y ago
  And Mac with X11 emulator/vm/what ever XQuartz is. And Windows if you use the 2 year old version that has a ton of issues (UI bugs, glitches, old GTK bugs, etc). Running on multiple Linux DE's/OS's is not cross platform as far as I am concerned, even though technically it is lol.
- Pacabel 12y ago
  That's not what people mean when they say "cross platform". "Cross platform" means supporting all of the widely-used platforms at a given point in time, and supporting them well. Today, that includes at least Windows, OS X, and Linux. Some would even extend that to include the BSDs, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Like others have pointed out, GTK+'s support for OS X and Windows has been very, very lacking. It's nowhere near as seamless as that offered by Qt, Swing, or SWT.
scrollaway 12y ago
> and easily integrates with any language I wish to use. Qt has just about as many bindings as GTK does.
- dubcanada 12y ago
  No it doesn't... http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php - 3.10 - 12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_Qt_5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_Q... - 7 And of that 7, 3 are the only "language integrations". The rest are parts (Go-QML)/part of Qt (QtQuick, C++). So 12 to 3 for GTK. And the GTK language binding is not complete, for example Rust has a GTK binding (though not done).

KAMiKAZOW 12y ago

GTK runs on Linux with X11, Wayland, and probably even some BSDs. Technically that qualifies as cross-platform.

dubcanada 12y ago
And Mac with X11 emulator/vm/what ever XQuartz is. And Windows if you use the 2 year old version that has a ton of issues (UI bugs, glitches, old GTK bugs, etc). Running on multiple Linux DE's/OS's is not cross platform as far as I am concerned, even though technically it is lol.
Pacabel 12y ago
That's not what people mean when they say "cross platform". "Cross platform" means supporting all of the widely-used platforms at a given point in time, and supporting them well. Today, that includes at least Windows, OS X, and Linux. Some would even extend that to include the BSDs, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Like others have pointed out, GTK+'s support for OS X and Windows has been very, very lacking. It's nowhere near as seamless as that offered by Qt, Swing, or SWT.

scrollaway 12y ago

> and easily integrates with any language I wish to use. Qt has just about as many bindings as GTK does.

dubcanada 12y ago
No it doesn't... http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php - 3.10 - 12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_Qt_5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_Q... - 7 And of that 7, 3 are the only "language integrations". The rest are parts (Go-QML)/part of Qt (QtQuick, C++). So 12 to 3 for GTK. And the GTK language binding is not complete, for example Rust has a GTK binding (though not done).