Re: The Linux Hole

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you really want a standard GUI interface in Linux, the standard would
be XLib.  I've never seen a GUI Linux system, or Unix system for that
matter, that didn't use XLib.  It's the library that X11 is based upon.

Of course, XLib isn't much fun to work with.  You're probably much better
off using the higher level routines available in either GTK+ or QT.
While they're not quite as "standard" as XLib, they're also not a "one or
the other" scenario.  Almost everyone has both libraries installed on
their system, and can run software written for both of them.

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, James Lowary wrote:
>
> If I remember correctly from a past life working for a 5250 Emulation
> developer, we looked at porting our software to run under Linux, but
> found there wasn't a standard GUI interface to write to.  Not only would
> we have to recode every widows GUI function call, but if we were to
> support different flavors of GUI available this would have to be done
> multiple times!
>