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> Just look at stuff like Gimp and Inkscape - those things are atrociously bad from GUI perspective GTK exists because of Gimp. Gnome came later. Sadly, the GU
by frik 11y ago
> Just look at stuff like Gimp and Inkscape - those things are atrociously bad from GUI perspective
GTK exists because of Gimp. Gnome came later. Sadly, the GUI of Gimp is still behind of Photoshop.
Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were fine, then everthing went downhill. Nowadays Ubuntu and Gnome2-fork (Mint) are okay.
Maybe implement a transparent theme that looks familar to Vista/Win7 users? Most users aren't that happy with the Win8/10 theme, that can't be changed.
- moonchrome 11y agoI know what GTK stands for :) I'm just saying it fails at that use case. It's actually fine for Gnome, I don't mind Gnome 3 at all, took some getting used to but it's working fine for me and I like the way it looks with some themes and extensions (Arc theme is great IMO and dock extension + alt-tab no group is all I need). Where GTK+ fails is providing GUI components that can be compact and information dense, all of it's widgets and layouts are designed arround white space heavy low density content/GUI - that just doesn't work for complex apps - GIMP/Inkscape being prime examples of bad GUI it creates.