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Author: Rudy Lorren
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To: T.J. Duchene
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] GTK
Qt would be more widely used if there were more themers, and if there was a
way to make it pretty (change colors and such) other than installing KDE.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:47 AM, T.J. Duchene <t.j.duchene@???> wrote:

> To my knowledge, the maintenance and development of GTK was turned over to
> the Gnome Project years ago, and GTK has more or less followed Gnome's
> vision of what it should be. It might as well be called the "Gnome
> Toolkit" now. I no longer care to use it for anything. Version 3 is
> completely incompatible with 2.x, and some programmers feel that the future
> direction of GTK along with Gnome itself has left the platform buggy,
> bloated and slow.
>
> Qt for example, offers a better platforms list and far more liberal
> licensing.
>
> The killer reason NOT to use GTK is because other toolkits can use native
> appearances/behaviours so that apps fit in with whatever environment that
> you happen to be using: Windows, Qt, or GTK/Gnome. I'd rather use wxWidgets
> before I ever consider using GTK again. Even Google dropped it, and no
> longer uses it in Chrome.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <
> mihamina.rakotomandimby@???> wrote:
>
>> On 12/06/2014 04:57 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 02:54:09PM +0200, Vlad wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would propose that we do not waste any time with GDM, GNOME or
>>>> anything
>>>> else that has sprung out of that irresponsible organizations other than
>>>> gtk.
>>>>
>>> I wasn't aware that GTK had anything to do with that organisation.
>>> Isn't it the Gimp ToolKit?
>>> And isn't the Gimp the GNU Image Manipulation Program?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but the Gimp tool kit has been adopted by the GNOME develoment team
>> to be their toolkit too.
>>
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