From: Adolf Mathias <dolfi@zkm.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Tcl/Tk
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 09:13:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF970F7.8000603@zkm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073271833.13429.8.camel@pelican>
skaller wrote:
>I have lablgtk. It would appear Redhat -- not to mention
>the GNU people -- regard Gtk as the standard GUI, and
>consider Tk obsolete. Tk isn't installed on RH9 by default
>and there is no install option to include it.
>
>I agree. I don't run Tcl/Tk as a matter of principle.
>It sucks .. :-)
>
>
Don't want to start a religious war here, but I beg to disagree - When
Tcl/Tk appeared in the early 90s, it was quick and usable on the Sun
stations in our lab (<100MHz, 32MByte if I remember well), and allowed
you to do some amazing things due to the tight integration of the
windowing toolkit and Tcl. And the canvas is still a wonderful piece of
software. Gtk on the other hand has a very sluggish feeling on my
Pentium 2.4 GHz notebook with 512 MByte, and the C API is just awful
when it comes to hooking widgets and signals together - nowhere as
simple as Tcl's bind commands for widgets and canvas items. And then the
config database... OK, I have to admit that design-wise, some of the GTK
skins look a bit nicer that the clunky Tk widgets ;)
I guess that a native OCaml toolkit would be a real killer.
Dolfi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-05 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-04 18:01 [Caml-list] Announcement: Equeue-2.0 (also about Shell pkg) Gerd Stolpmann
2004-01-04 18:43 ` Sylvain LE GALL
2004-01-04 19:20 ` Remi Vanicat
2004-01-04 20:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2004-01-05 3:03 ` skaller
2004-01-05 14:13 ` Adolf Mathias [this message]
2004-01-05 9:33 ` [Caml-list] Tcl/Tk Richard Jones
2004-01-05 14:53 ` Christophe Raffalli
2004-01-06 0:09 ` Adolf Mathias
2004-01-06 10:30 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2004-01-04 19:25 ` [Caml-list] Announcement: Equeue-2.0 (also about Shell pkg) Gerd Stolpmann
2004-01-04 19:52 ` Sylvain LE GALL
2004-01-04 20:27 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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