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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 03:19:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:02:12 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I don't do a lot of GUI programming, but GNOME was the only Linux
> graphical system I found that supported C programming.  All others
> demand C++, and I'm not about to re-write all my stuff in a language I
> don't like.

Yes, it’s interesting that GTK defined an object model that would work in 
C, which meant it was not tied to any particular programming language.

> If I was going to switch languages, I'd probably go to
> Python.

I have used GTK for a few projects in Python. Might try a Python Qt 
binding one of these days ...

In any case, this is all a big improvement on Tcl/Tk, which is what I used 
for my first Linux GUI project. I soon reworked it to use Python+GTK, and 
never used Tcl/Tk for anything else after that.