Le 28/11/2015 16:29, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> > Gtk and Qt are meant for applications who target the general public, which have to be
> shiny and stylish to be adopted.
>
> So an application to connect over wifi isn't an application that
> targets the
> general public?
>
Take it easy Jonathan. It's not me who raised the question of
having a lightweight network manager. As I said many times on this list,
I'm perfectly happy with wpa_gui, which is based on Qt. But if
lightweight is the goal, then it should use a lightweight toolkit or
curses. With curses, you also reduce the number of dependencies. This is
simple logic. Now, if you tell me Gtk+2 is lightweight, I believe you, I
didn't look myself.
> Also, what are some examples of actively maintained GUI toolkits that
> don't
> target a general audience?
>
The audience of Linux does not restrict to email, browsing, and
office suite, that is end users of shiny applications. There is another
kind of audience: people who need to develop their own custom
applications; these people don't care of look and feel, but they care
with development time.
I developped around 2000 an oscilloscope emulator as a debug tool
for custom waveform digitizers used in a Particle Physics detector; this
is my only experience with a GUI toolkit.
Go look at http://xforms-toolkit.org/screenshots/ and you will see
a collection of screenshots and explanations of what these applications
are doing. Please go have a look. It's a short but interesting visit.
Didier