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>GTK has poor OSX support Is it really that bad ? I was really impressed the last time I did GTK+ (was a linux app small content pipeline frontend for designe
by moonchrome 11y ago
>GTK has poor OSX support
Is it really that bad ?
I was really impressed the last time I did GTK+ (was a linux app small content pipeline frontend for designers) at how fast I got things done, the docs were simple and to the point [1], Glade was buggy but still usable (I had to reload after some time because it would get progressively slower as I would add/remove elements - probably a leak somewhere) I got an app with complex tree view/table/filtering etc. running within two days from 0 previous GTK+ experience.
I liked that it was a straight GUI toolkit - reminded me of VB - just create GUI elements with RAD tool and hook up callbacks in good old python - no fancy MVC, IOT learning QML and w/e. - exactly the kind of thing that lets you do apps of this size fast IMO.
[1] https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- mangecoeur 11y agoFrom what I could see, the Quartz backend isn't complete, and generally Mac doesn't seem to be a high priority. Some apps like Inkscape still require to install X11 for mac (which is slow, and makes for a very clunky ux), except for experimental builds with GTK native. In short, not really a plug-and-play experience.