[Gtk-sharp-list] Running GTK# applications on KDE - possible?

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Sep 17 10:02:53 EDT 2008


> I am sorry in advance for such a lamer's question. I am poor Windows C#
> developer, that installed Ubuntu several days ago on his desktop and was
> charmed ;)
> The question is: how to write GUI-portable applications using Mono and
> MonoDevelop? I am impressed by the quantity of UI Toolkits listed 
> http://mono-project.com/Gui_Toolkits here  

Some bits are more impressive than others. :)  But they generally work
very well.

> and a bit confused also. The only
> toolkit supported by MonoDevelop visual designer seem to be GTK#. 

Yep.  And you probably want to add
<http://code.google.com/p/holly-gtk-widgets/> to your widgets palette;
very nice.

> But if I
> will use GTK# as an interface library for my Mono app, will this app run on
> KDE without any changes needed? 

Yes.

> If it will run, what libraries should the
> KDE-based system have installed to run GTK# apps?

Gtk.  Nothing really beyond what would be installed by default by any
mainstream distribution.



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