Re: GUI systems

[Chris Purnell <cjp@oit.net>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:03:12PM -0500, Will Weisser wrote:
 
> > Isn't that a KDE thing.  Not much good unless you are already
> > running KDE.
 
> Not really...you need the KDE libs (and QT), but thats no diferent from a
> program requiring plib (for example).  I use it for all my programming and its
> extremely slick...I'm currently writing a chinese poker game in GTK-- with it.

It's not the same.  Taking the example of plib.  Plib is a small package
that requires GL, X and libc.  While the KDE libs have a depenency list
as long as your arm.  The same goes for gnome, only more so.

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