From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Make GUI for application
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:51:11 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 at 5:12 AM, Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> On 9/12/23 18:56, uzibalqa wrote:
>
> > I want to make a GUI for an application I am writing. What would people recommend I use that
> > is Free Software as defined by the FSF ? What does Emacs use for its GUIs ?
>
>
> Maybe you want to use some open source graphical user interface
> toolkits. On Linux systems there are many of them:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_GUI_libraries
>
>
> On my Linux system (on which I download then recompile GNU emacs from
> its source code every day) GNU emacs is using GTK.
>
> https://gtk.org/
>
> But you could consider using other open source toolkits like
> https://www.qt.io/ or https://www.fltk.org/ or http://fox-toolkit.org/
> and many others.
What is the most useful right now besides GTK ?
> % /usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk --version
>
> GNU Emacs 30.0.50
> Development version 2b6928edb978 on master branch; build date 2023-09-12.
> Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> If I run /usr/bin/ldd /usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk the output has more
> than a hundred lines (libaries used directly or indirectly by GNU emacs)
>
> If I run /usr/local/bin/emacs-trunk /proc/self/maps 149 lines are shown.
>
>
> By the way, my pet open source project is the RefPerSys open source
> inference engine, see https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ and
> amateurish website http://refpersys.org/
>
> (contributors to RefPerSys are welcome)
>
>
> Regards from near Paris in France.
>
> --
> Basile Starynkevitch basile@starynkevitch.net
>
> (only mine opinions / les opinions sont miennes uniquement)
> 92340 Bourg-la-Reine, France
> web page: starynkevitch.net/Basile/
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2023-09-12 16:56 Make GUI for application uzibalqa
2023-09-12 17:12 ` Basile Starynkevitch
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