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Re: Why is GNUstep less successful than GTK and Qt??
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Mathias . Picker |
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Re: Why is GNUstep less successful than GTK and Qt?? |
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Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:07:20 +0200 (CEST) |
On 12 Jun, Christopher Culver wrote:
> I asked about this on Gentoo Forums. The responses were along the
> lines of "It doesn't matter how easy it is to program if it's so
> ugly". If GNUstep had a better look, I'm sure more people would come
?? In my eyes GNUstep is one of the least eyesores around. And I don't
think it's a valid point anyhow: both gtk and qt were incredible ugly in
their first incarnations.
So it's probably because GNUstep just wasn't ready (is it now?) for any
application, and because objective-c is unknown and nobody is willing to
learn another language, and so
we have no applications to speak of. (could somebody get the lighthouse
apps out of Sun, _pretty_please_ :-)
Also, the UI ist strictly non-Windoze, which makes it way better, but
less accesible to a lot of folks. Look at the windowze-likeness of kde
and gnome: look at their icon-bursting ui's and other strange stuff. Not
good, but known to many people.
> to it. There's also the problem of lack of advertising. GNUstep
> should hype itself more to Slashdot and OSNews.
>
> Christopher Culver
>
> On 2003-06-12 07:04:59 +0300 jonathon <jmckitrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Is it because they are C/C++ based?
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Re: Why is GNUstep less successful than GTK and Qt??, Boudewijn Rempt, 2003/06/12
Re: Why is GNUstep less successful than GTK and Qt??, Christopher Browne, 2003/06/12