Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-07, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:02:12 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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I don't do a lot of GUI programming, but GNOME was the only Linux
graphical system I found that supported C programming.  All others
demand C++, and I'm not about to re-write all my stuff in a language I
don't like.  If I was going to switch languages, I'd probably go to
Python.  But I probably won't live that long.

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I was never too crazy about the gtk_stupidly_long_snake_case_function()
style. Yeah, I know, descriptive function names but I probably know I'm
using Gtk and not WxWidgets. At least with Motif/X  XtAddCallback() and
XmListDeleteAllItems() X, Xt, and Xm gave you an idea of in which of the 6
books to look for the documentation.
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I never used Qt with c++. Trolltech's incomprehensible licensing made it a
no go for commercial code. I do use PySide6 in Python which follows the C+
+ usage fairly closely. PySide6 is the official Python package and
replaced PyQt, again for license reasons, Riverbank Computing in this
case.
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I played around a little with XForms, which was a C based library.  Not
as extensive as GTK, but good enough for simple situations.  FLTK was
based on Forms as well, and was C++ based.