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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Building w/ gtk2 vs gtk3
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 05:48:24PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
>
> My apologies, this was indeed confusing. I meant that GTK2->GTK3, despite
> increasing the version number, is a functionality downgrade.
>
> It's worse in all areas of usability I've noticed, it breaks programs that
> use it almost every minor version, completely fails in some of my use cases
> (like X forwarding), imposes Gnome3 conventions on unrelated software, etc.


One thing I'm wondering about with GTK3 -- does GTK3 have the annoying
16-bit limitation on pixel counts? That has bitten me with GTK2. It
severely limits one's scrolling range.

-- hendrik