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Both of you are concentrating on GNOME DE. GNOME DE doesn't matter. Gtk3/4/5 matters and it, and Gtk using devs writting applications, don't have all the vertic
by superkuh 4y ago
Both of you are concentrating on GNOME DE. GNOME DE doesn't matter. Gtk3/4/5 matters and it, and Gtk using devs writting applications, don't have all the vertical integration and control that the GNOME desktop environment has.
- aidenn0 4y agoMaybe I'm wrong, but I get the sense that GNOME is the tail that wags the Gtk dog at this point.
- superkuh 4y agoYou're not wrong about control of Gtk. But my point was that if GNOME does drop such X11 functionality while the GNOME DE may not suffer, the far more important and larger set of applications that use Gtk will. GNOME DE won't have problems but the Linux ecosystem will.
- Crysstalis 4y ago>You're not wrong about control of Gtk No, the parent comment is wrong. There is no "vertical integration" or control. It's just an open source project. If anyone was interested in maintaining the X11 support, it would happen, or at minimum it would happen in a fork, but there is currently nobody. If someone is worrying about other parts suffering, they should start contributing now. I doubt this will happen though, nobody has turned up over the past several years, which is exactly why they consider dropping it. Honestly I think most developers who even bother with GTK4 are probably fully on board with wayland, the ones who aren't are still trying to use GTK2 and GTK3.