[avrdude-dev] Re: About avrdude-gui

[Bernhard Walle]

* Joerg Wunsch [29.10.2005 14:06]:
> As Bernhard Walle wrote:
> 
>> I would prefer Gtk (or the C++ binding). It should be available on
>> _every_ Linux or *BSD system as shared library so size does not
>> matter because it's a shared library.
> 
> What about MacOS?  I can't find any statement it would run there.
> (fltk does.)

Don't know. At least with X11 (MacOS comes with a X server by default).

> Also, it's kinda fat, and IIRC, Jörg argument was that it's missing a
> decent interface builder.

Well, there's Glade. But I don't know much about the quality.

But as far as I know fltk doesn't support Unicode and anti-aliased fonts
(fontconfig, Xft). If I look on htmldoc, that's sure not the kind of
interface I expect on a modern computer.

I think the current GUI is built with Qt, I don't know what's wrong with
this. Qt 4 is GPL for Windows, too, runs with MacOS, is widely spread on
Linux, comes with a good interface builder ... Sure, not as lightweight
as fltk, but I don't see a problem here.


Regards,
  Bernhard