I'll add my comments interstitially, below, which may convey views that
are at variance to the views of some in gEDA.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Bill Cox wrote:
There seem to be three main criteria for choosing:
- Usability
- Licensing
- Long-term outlook
I think the most important criteria is free as in freedom. I agree it
should work, and have a future, but non-free is totally unacceptable.
I've used GTK enough to know that I'm not a fan. I much prefer the
functionality MFC from Microsoft. I haven't used Qt or wxWidgets, but
it would be great to hear from someone who's used both.
Because GTK is free software, you have the opportunity to make it better.
Microsoft has openly decried free software, and they are certainly against
your having free software, and the freedom to do what you want with it.
My £0.02: I made a big mistake last year doing a front-end in GTK 1.
It's now unsupported, and I'm going to have to do a lot of work to get
up to GTK 2. This would never have happened with commercial software, or
software which someone had a financial interest in. I don't, as a user,
have any 'opportunity to make it better'; I don't have the time or
inclination to fix GTK.