free graphical development

**aral** · 08-25-2005

Is there under linux some development application for graphical design , like QT , , but which is free also for commercial purposes ?

**techieMoe** · 08-25-2005

Perhaps GTK+?

**prosen** · 08-25-2005

GTK+ is one of the foremost and its free ..

**aral** · 08-25-2005

So , did gtk+ come with my liinux distribution (suse 9.3) ? cause I can't find it anywhere and I did a full instalation .

**techieMoe** · 08-25-2005

It probably did, but the development packages for it may not have been installed. You might open up YaST and search for GTK. The package might be called something like gtk-devel.

**aral** · 08-25-2005

I found a package in yast which is called gtk2-devel and it is installed . How do I start gtk+ then ? And one other thing: is gtk+ only for creation of GUI in Gnome , or also for KDE ?

**aral** · 08-25-2005

Also , is there a GUI designer for gtk+ ?

**jlgreer1** · 08-26-2005

How does gtk compare to Qt?

Thanks, Jeff

**aral** · 08-26-2005

That is one of the things that I don't understand either mostly because I'm new to this graphical "mambo jambo"

. As far as I understood gtk+ is a class of graphical libraries , and QT is an application which uses libraries (probably not gtk libraries), I guess ..

, isn't it ? I could be way off here

, someone enlighten me pls

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Also if someone could answer my questions above I would be gratefull ! Tahnks .

**techieMoe** · 08-26-2005

Originally Posted by jlgreer1

How does gtk compare to Qt?

Thanks, Jeff

I can't speak for how they perform in applications (since I've never designed in GTK+) but the obvious difference is their license. Qt is not free (no cost) for commercial use. GTK+ is. That doesn't necessarily mean it's *better*, but I think that's an important difference.

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