Linux GUI tools/development

[TheMagicM]

I'm fixing to install SuSE 9.1 on my PC (after running RedHat for a while)..

I was fiddling with kdeveloper and some other tool (glade tool) that also helped in development of GUI interfaces.

Which would be a good tool for a C coder (not C++)? kdeveloper?  (KDE is my windowmanager of choice..even though Gnome looks good also).  Is kdeveloper ONLY C++?  From what it looks like thats a yes.

-Alex

IBM's Eclipse is a good IDE, that should install from yast IIRC.

You'll need the C Development Tools plugins from here http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/.  I believe QSSL originally wrote the Eclipse CDT for QNX Momentics.

Personally, I find nano and g++ more than adequate. :-)

-edit

I'll give you a tip about KDE on SuSE 9.1, update to 3.3.2 and download the Korilla icon theme and use the Plastik buttons and window decorations.  Much cleaner than the defaults.  You should "prelink -afmRv" too to gain speed.

[TheMagicM]

when you say it should install from yast.. how?  I searched for eclipse and it could not find it.. I am downloading Eclipse and the C/C++ plugin now through the link you gave me.

[TheMagicM]

mdma:

Done.  You are absoloutely correct.  Eclipse is totally awesome.  I downloaded it and the C/C++ plugin and it works great!  Now to get a book on how to do GUI in Linux. (any recommendation?)

as for plastik, I cannot find the actual download for it.. (I went to kde themes on the net and they only had PDF and images)..but I did get Korilla and it looks great!

TheMagicM wrote:
mdma:

Done.  You are absoloutely correct.  Eclipse is totally awesome.  I downloaded it and the C/C++ plugin and it works great!  Now to get a book on how to do GUI in Linux. (any recommendation?)

as for plastik, I cannot find the actual download for it.. (I went to kde themes on the net and they only had PDF and images)..but I did get Korilla and it looks great!

Plastik is built into KDE 3.3 upwards.

If you are running on SuSE 9.1, you need to get the rpms for KDE 3.3 from the suse ftp site.

As for books, it depends what GUI toolkit you want to use.  If you prefer KDE over GNOME and prefer C++, then get one about QT programming.  There are plenty on amazon.

-edit  It's a shame Amiga Java is not upto scratch at the moment, Eclipse for OS4/MorphOS/AROS would rock!!! :-)

[mrsad]

Is kdeveloper ONLY C++?  From what it looks like thats a yes.

but it isn't  :-P

following the featurelist you'll notice:

15 supported languages including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C (via C support), SQL, Fortran, Haskell, Java, PHP, Pascal, Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash, XUL

so in most cases you'll find that your language of choice for development is supported, hmm, that is unless you are looking for an AROS ide or something  :-D

[TheMagicM]

mdma: what about Glade for a GUI devel tool?  It generates C source so I should be able to build a gui with that?  I havent read up on C++ so C would be my preference.  

TheMagicM wrote:
mdma: what about Glade for a GUI devel tool?  It generates C source so I should be able to build a gui with that?  I havent read up on C++ so C would be my preference.  

Asfar as I can remember Glade creates GTK/GNOME GUI's.
QT Designer creates QT/KDE GUI's.

I don't code many GUI linux apps, so you'll have to pardon my ignorance on this one! :-)

If you are still using KDE and like it, then I'd stick with writing QT/KDE apps for now.