What is the easiest way to make Linux C++ GUI apps? I'm using GNOME and ubuntu 8.10.
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I personally prefer QT as I prefer working with the signal/slots mechanism and just find it easy to develop applications quickly with it. Some of your other options would be wxWidgets and GTK+.
CTT
2009-03-15 01:30:31
Qt is great, although Qt apps might look a bit out of place in Gnome.
David Zaslavsky
2009-03-15 02:07:05
I think that QGtkStyle, especially under QT4.5, blends in quite well with native gtk apps.
CTT
2009-03-15 02:33:19
It blends in quite well, however, still has integration problems. For example, standard dialogs like the color chooser are different. And while I really love Qt, unfortunately the color chooser esp. totally sucks compared to the GTK+ one. But they want to change that (use GTK+ choosers).
ypnos
2009-03-20 10:05:04
I switched to kubuntu so everything works great now.
Lucas McCoy
2009-03-28 02:11:07
I've looked at gtk, but I have no idea how to install it. I ran configure and it did not work.
Lucas McCoy
2009-03-15 01:34:45
Don't forget that Ubuntu and Debian tends to put alot of the 'classic' development infrasture in the build-essential package, so install that too.
Arafangion
2009-03-16 06:21:08
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Try QT, it will work on Ubuntu, and has a lot of development tools and documentation behind it.
gbjbaanb
2009-03-15 01:42:03
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I can personally vouch for the ease of use of qt in general, as well as linux specific development. CHeck it out :)
Stefan Kendall
2009-03-15 02:31:31
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The easiest way is to use an GUI GUI builder.
Glade for GTK.
QT Designer for QT.
wxDesigner and wxFormBuilder for wxWidgets.
Update: I should mention that these output C++ among many others?
Allen
2009-03-15 11:41:10
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Just to be clear about the toolkits mentioned so far (GTK+,QT and wxWidgets)
GTK+ is the toolkit used by GNOME
QT is the toolkit used by KDE
wxWidget aims to be an abstraction above those (and others) to be less desktop environment specific.
Another toolkit worh takeing a peek at is EFL the toolkit used by E17, although the glacier development speed of this desktop environment may put you off, I hear nice things about it's design. Note that some components from the Enlightenment project such as imlib2 has been used for years by other projects.
John Nilsson
2009-03-15 11:53:19
"glacier development speed"? I had to unsubscribe from the Enlightenment CVS mailing list because of the traffic - 15+ major commits a day!
greyfade
2009-03-15 18:01:46
I haven't followd it for a while. But to my knowlege there is still no 1.0 released from this project.
John Nilsson
2009-03-15 19:57:36
The way you put it, it sounds like KDE is the only major user of Qt. Actually Qt apps include Google Earth, Opera and Skype.
Stefan Monov
2009-12-30 00:07:34
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I suggest Juce. It's elegant, cross-platform, fast, well-written, almost totally bug-free and is identical to the last pixel on every platform it runs on. The number of known bugs is nearly always zero, since when a bug report is filed, the author drops everything and fixes it! The Register wrote an article about it a while ago which gives a rather good overview of the library.
Chinmay Kanchi
2009-12-30 00:16:18