From: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
Subject: Re: Make GUI for application
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:12:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <88f8c04a-30a4-4e51-94ad-97161e70db01@starynkevitch.net> (raw)
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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.
% /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 [this message]
2023-09-12 18:51 ` uzibalqa
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