On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:30 PM, T.J. Duchene <t.j.duchene@???>
wrote:

> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 08:22:55 PM Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:12:01AM +0200, Teodoro Santoni wrote:
> > > ... but, yeah, it's outside the scope of Devuan. D-Bus just sucks and
> is
> > > documented on a random basis, when you compare it to the rest of
> > > GNU/Fedora
> > > it's... like GTK: it sucks, there are alternatives but it's a PITA to
> port
> > > away 'cause a lot of big codebases uses them as foundation.
> >
> > So there are alternatives to GTK: Do any suck less? What are they?
> >
> What's wrong with GTK? I don't care for it, but it is not any worse than
> Microsoft's UI.
>
> There are lots of alternatives. wxWidgets and Qt are the most common
> suggestions, but there are far more esoteric ones. If you are aiming for
> widest portability support, Qt is probably your best bet.
>

Doesn't wxWidgets use GTK on GNU/Linux?


>
> I don't care for it myself - because it is C++.


Minor correction: GTK is written in C, and relies on GLib, which is also
written C. However, it's open to debate as to how similar/different
C-plus-GLib is to C++ in practice.

Cheers,
Jude