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Re: Motif or GTK?





 >> When I said I was planning on building a Motif/Lesstif interface to
 Guile,
 >> some people
 >> suggested that perhaps I should use GTK instead. I rejected that idea
 out
 >> of hand. My
 >> apologies to those people...
 >>
 >> I now realise that I didn't actually know what GTK was. I had presumed
 that
 >> it was some
 >> equivilent to Stk - i.e. The Tk from Tcl/Tk fame.
 >>
 >> The question now arises for me - whether I should continue to port
 Motif to
 >> Guile, or
 >>  whether instead, I should port my applications to GTK.
>
>Is it hard to provide multiple user interfaces to choose from?

I already support more than one interface, but I want to reduce the amount
of
C code by moving to guile. That would mean I either make guile support
Motif
which I use now, or I make my app support GTK, which guile supports now.

Since GTK can look almost the same as Motif, it seems pointless to support
both
except as some intellectual exercise.