what to use for creating a GUI application

[meereck]

Hello, can anybody please suggest me what library (QTK etc) to use in order to create a GUI application which can be run on both KDE and GNOME?

thank you guys in advance,
regards Meereck

[RobinVossen]

You can use any of these:
GTK -> Gnome Look
QT -> KDE Look
TCL/TK -> Fugly Look
WxWidgets -> Awsome Look
NCursers -> Hacker Look (CLI Based)
SDL -> If you want to drawtheGUI yourself.

Id use WxWidgets if I where you and wanted to make a Cross-Interface thingy

[meereck]

hello robin, thank you for the overview.
Does the application have to be compiled separately for KDE and GNOME desktops?
Does the machine where I want to run the application have to have any libraries, or everything is included in the executable binary file?

thanks for enlighting a newbie

[Rubberman]

Qt applications will run on Gnome and GTK+ on KDE as long as the appropriate libraries are installed. The only issues are if you specifically access some of the desktop services for gnome or kde, in which case that desktop manager will have to be running. Generally speaking, this is not an issue. I run gnome tools on my kde desktop all the time on my CentOS workstation, and vice versa on my Ubuntu laptop. I prefer Qt, but I use raw X11 (XToolkit and Xlib) as well as wxwidgets. Both Qt and WxWidgets are goot for cross-platform programming as they work well on Unix, Linux, and Windows.

[Cabhan]

To be a bit clearer, Gtk and Qt are just widget toolkits. Gnome's components were developed in Gtk, and KDE's in Qt, but Gtk and Qt are desktop-independent.

To run a Gtk program on a given computer, it must have the Gtk libraries. The same is true for Qt programs. However, these libraries are in no way tied to the desktop environments, and can run under anything.