[Nottingham] Opensource devel environment?

[Philip Scott]

Greetings, 

> Any suggestions and recommendations of good stuff / bad stuff / potential
> pit-falls before I pseudo-randomly start trying out stuff would be much
> appreciated!!

I can't recommend QT (www.trolltech.com) to you enough, it's API is stable, 
clean and very well documented. Code can be easily ported to Windows and 
MacOS as well as just about any hardware that can run Linux (from Sparcs to 
iPaqs) The bundled dialog editor is excellent, for templates there are many 
examples, but the best way is to use kdevelop which integrates very smoothly 
and gives you a nice build setup (configure.ac and Makefile.am and the like) 
to make autotools work nicely for you, although of course, this is completely 
optional. 

One other thing for QT is its beautiful syntax, it has a professionally 
designed way of connecting GUI objects togeather; it just feels  like you're 
using something that was designed, rather than something which evolved (which 
is a fine model of development for many, many things, but it is questionable 
if it is the perfect one in this case) 

Very happy coding! (And if you get stuck, I might well be able to help you so 
do give a shout)

Kind Regards,
	Philip