Off Topic: GUI programming

[Xavier Otazu]

	Hi!

	I would like to ask an off-topic question to this list because here there are a
lot of (good!) Linux GUI programmers.

	We (three persons and me) are teaching Software Engineering at 4th
undergraduate year, and next year we would like to switch to Linux platform
(actually we are on MS-Windows). The reason is that the tool we are using
(Rational software) is expensive, difficult to maintain (because of
incompatibilities with Win-2000 or with new XP Service Pack versions), unstable
and we cannot distribute Rational to our alumni because of Rational license
terms. We have searched on OpenSource tools and we think we can substitute many
Rational tools with Linux ones (kdeveloper, Umbrello, CVS, subversion,
valgrind-valgui, etc).

	The ultimate (and the ONLY) problem is that one of the topic we teach
is GUI design. Thus, alumni have to work, i.e. to program, with GUI. I know
there exists several GUI libraries implementations for Linux (Qt, GTK+,
wxWindows, Motif, the GFC Jeff Franks posted in this list, etc ...), but I don't
know them deeply. Another problem, is that our alumni doesn't have much
experience with Linux. In fact, they neither know anything about MFC nor Visual
C++, but actually we teach them two classes about MFC to introduce basic
concepts.

	Hence, my question is, what do you think is the best GUI library to teach using
Linux platform? Alumni should be able to perform the most basic tasks (create a
dialog, insert buttons, react to button clicking, etc) with two introduction
sessions.

	... I am sorry for this off-topic ... ;-)

Thanks,


Xavier