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Both GTK and QT are exceptionally bad toolkits and are part of the reason the Linux Desktop never took off. Giving GUI toolkits responsibly for even more things
by sprash 6y ago
Both GTK and QT are exceptionally bad toolkits and are part of the reason the Linux Desktop never took off. Giving GUI toolkits responsibly for even more things is clearly a bad Idea. Also personally I like the fact that inertia scrolling works everywhere consistently the same way. Just think about the horrors everybody now implementing their own scrolling. Consequently the fact that Linux is "hacks over hacks" is a feature not a bug. People should stop assuming that copying Windows and Mac will somehow give Linux more popularity.
- pcr910303 6y ago> Both GTK and QT are exceptionally bad toolkits > Also personally I like the fact that inertia scrolling works everywhere consistently the same way. > Just think about the horrors everybody now implementing their own scrolling. Which should be a reason for advocating one toolkit that rules everywhere (maybe systemd-toolkit?), not a reason to have poor inertia scrolling experience that doesn’t work properly across different windows. > Consequently the fact that Linux is "hacks over hacks" is a feature not a bug. How can this is a feature, not a bug? Isn’t it technical debt?
- deltron3030 6y agoI'm sure that the real issue with Linux is more a philosophical one, where certain aspects about freedom overlap with UX in a counter productive way, preventing devs from being very opinionated about important UX things.