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josuealcalde
June 1st, 2005, 06:23 PM
First, my english is not very good, but I want to comment something to you.

I have been an Ubuntu user for six months. I used windows.
I am spanish an I am a university student. I study computer science.
I have program mostly using java and a bit c. When I finish the first part of my studies, I made a java program for e-voting using java. I worked on it for one year more or less.

When I arrived Ubuntu, I decided to try to make a GNU software and I think about the needs. Most of them are already developed or are being developed now.

I have decided to do a deb-viewer / deb-installer with a gui similar to synaptic.
I have study the case using Synaptic source-code and gdeb source-code. In the way I have been learning a bit about C++, which is the languaje of libapt-pkg and I have discovered LibGlade.
I have been reading some tutorials about Glade and it is the best idea for building simples GUIs I have ever seen.

One thing I am very ugly about linux is Gnome and KDE different Look. It is not good for linux I believe, thinking about the appearence.
Most of users of KDE will need GTK (OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, Gimp, Eclipse, Evolution) and most of users of Gnome will need QT(K3B and a lot of small applications which haven't a GTK replacement).

Other problem for linux user is hardware. Most of hardware is supported but not all.
And when a driver is done, have to decide between GTK support or KDE support in its gui (ATI, HPlip...).

And my questions?
Is there something similar to libglade in QT/KDE?
Will be posible to port LibGlade to LibKlade?
If this could be possible, a GTK application like Synaptic, for example, could be run with QT without any source change (or minor changes)

Is there nowadays a way to do a Gnome and KDE compatible interface?