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> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now h

> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now has a mix of GTK+2, GTK+3, GTK+4, QT4 and QT5 applications I agree on several points he makes about GTK+3, not so much on the theming issue, but it's arguable that the reason most distros have a mix of gtk/qt by default is not because gtk+3. Now pretty much every kde-based distro that wants to ship with firefox/chrome by default, has to bring up gtk. iirc ubuntu studio shipped with both qt and gtk because of the plethora of applications it offered, way before gtk+3 was a thing.

CameronNemo 6y ago
Also FWIW gtk is not difficult to build/package, distros like Void Linux no longer have Qt 4, and gtk2 should be an uncommon dependency with GIMP, Inkscape, and Firefox dropping it or already having dropped it.
jcelerier 6y ago
> Even worse, due to the irritation the GTK+3 move caused to developers, many switched to QT4 or QT5, which requires use of C++, so a typical linux distro now has a mix of GTK+2, GTK+3, GTK+4, QT4 and QT5 applications I mean, even on my Windows and Mac machines I have software using GTK2 (GIMP), GTK3(Zim, Geany), Qt4 (various proprietary software), Qt5 (Strawberry, music player, etc)... plus a ton of other toolkits (Juce, Fltk, TKinter, the various Windows APIs, Cocoa, ...). And unlike linux every app has the DLLs duplicated. It causes exactly zero problems.