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> And you have basically two UI toolkits for linux That isn't the case. There are several UI toolkits on Linux, they may not be as widespread as Qt and Gtk are
by badsectoracula 4y ago
> And you have basically two UI toolkits for linux
That isn't the case. There are several UI toolkits on Linux, they may not be as widespread as Qt and Gtk are, but they are used by many applications.
And even with Qt/Gtk, their developers (especially Gtk) regard each major version as a separate library.
- kaba0 4y agoSure, but then it is the job of those framework developers to.. abstract away the underlying display manager, so they should port their framework to support wayland as well, and application devs can just continue to write against this abstraction. I still see no problem here.
- bluGill 4y agoThose others - for better and worse have less developers. Having to figure out two different types of decorations is a mess that they don't have time to, so I can't blame them for picking one.
- kaba0 4y agoThat is inherent in open-source/bazaar-style development, and we can all help wherever we can. There is no entity like Apple/Microsoft mandating that we change to Y from X.