Steve Fosdick fozzy@pelvoux.demon.co.uk writes:
Yes, there is more than one GUI toolkit, as it GNOME/KDE, and though applications written for one toolkit are hard to port to the other, each environment can run applications written for the other one by installing the necessary libraries.
Interesting. Isn't there also more than one interface library to the Windows toolkit? Is that significantly different from having a few different widget libraries? I only seem to use three with any regularity, anyway: GTK, Xaw and Tk.