[Mono-list] QT# or GTK# ?

Davide Inglima - limaCAT limacat@libero.it
Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:29:22 +0200


Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> Hello,

>> i'd like to hear some arguments over which one is better or has the most 
>> promising future.  Personally i'd prefer to use QT# because i'm a KDE user, 
>> but if GTK# is better or has a better future, then i'd rather go with GTK#.

>> Has anyone used them both? If so, can you please comment on the quality of 
>> both?  Or if you just have any comments on which one i should use, please go 
>> ahead and list them since i just want the best one and i'd like to hear from 
>> people who've used either one of them or preferably both.

> I wrote a summary here:

> 	http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/tmp/toolkits.html

> But you will have to weight each of the pros and cons yourself.

> The major complaint of Gtk is typically its C-based API.  This is a
> non-issue with Gtk# though.

Well, with an Adapter design pattern or a Facade one I think this 
problem could be eased further...

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern