[Gllug] acroread seven for linux released

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:41:23AM +0000, Craig Millar wrote:
> as an aside, could anyone tell me why commercial software houses
> almost invariably go with gtk for their linux apps?

If it's gtk then it's a big step forward from Motif, which is what
they appeared to be using last time I tried out acroread.

Gtk is a perfectly reasonable toolkit, wide range of widgets, bindings
for many languages, small, and (with a little tweaking) can be made to
look good.  I say small - the toolkit itself is small, but GNOME seems
to add a huge amount of extra bloat.  We write cross-platform (Windows
/ Linux) commercial apps in Objective CAML using Gtk.

Rich.

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