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Flutter Linux targets GTK3 and is currently investigating a GTK4 migration. Flutter also supports Windows and macOS.

PlutoIsAPlanet 3y ago
But it doesn't use GTK widgets, it just uses GTK to make a window. That said GTK on Windows and macOS is very meh. You don't choose GTK for making a cross platform app.
- treyd 3y ago
  Deluge and Transmission are good cross platform GTK apps.
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    Evidentially it is possible to make GTK apps work at least somewhat nicely on Windows and Mac since there are a few out there. But it's clearly a ton of work. If you just make a standard GTK app it will be terrible. Most toolkits (e.g. Qt or even Flutter) work much nicer without having to fix them.
  - sirwhinesalot 3y ago
    Transmission only uses GTK on linux.
    - abrouwers 3y ago
      There is a Qt and CLI client, too.
      - seabrookmx 3y ago
        And a web UI! (My preferred method as I run it on my home server)
  - chungy 3y ago
    Transmission has Qt and Win32-native GUI clients as an alternative to its GTK client. I don't think Transmission is a good example.
  - dpassens 3y ago
    Transmission uses Qt on Windows, either GTK or Qt on Linux, and something AppKit on macOS.
rokkitmensch 3y ago
And it's a Google project, which means as soon as the low-hanging promo fruit is harvested it will immediately go EOL.
- seabrookmx 3y ago
  Like golang? Dart? Or Angular? They kill consumer products not programming languages or major frameworks..
  - krasin 3y ago
    > Angular Well, Angular is kind of dead now (or rather - will be). See https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1770478763253379488 https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1770478763253379488 > Today we have some exciting news! We're merging frameworks! Angular and Wiz! Wiz is awful and it's my read that a Wiz manager "won" a corporate battle and Angular (as it was) is dead.
    - seabrookmx 3y ago
      Isn't Wiz internal only at Google? How can it replace Angular (honest question)?
  - wiseowise 3y ago
    These folks built their whole business on DartAngular only to be dropped when some manager decided that it’s time to push Flutter. https://medium.com/wriketechclub/wrike-is-sunsetting-its-angulardart-usage-ff309a75ad7c https://medium.com/wriketechclub/wrike-is-sunsetting-its-ang...
    - seabrookmx 3y ago
      Hardly anyone used the Dart Angular bindings so it was not surprising they got dropped. They were an early adopter and got bit.. this happens everywhere especially in frontend web development, and is certainly not specific to Google's frameworks.
  - 3y ago

But it doesn't use GTK widgets, it just uses GTK to make a window. That said GTK on Windows and macOS is very meh. You don't choose GTK for making a cross platform app.

treyd 3y ago
Deluge and Transmission are good cross platform GTK apps.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  Evidentially it is possible to make GTK apps work at least somewhat nicely on Windows and Mac since there are a few out there. But it's clearly a ton of work. If you just make a standard GTK app it will be terrible. Most toolkits (e.g. Qt or even Flutter) work much nicer without having to fix them.
- sirwhinesalot 3y ago
  Transmission only uses GTK on linux.
  - abrouwers 3y ago
    There is a Qt and CLI client, too.
    - seabrookmx 3y ago
      And a web UI! (My preferred method as I run it on my home server)
- chungy 3y ago
  Transmission has Qt and Win32-native GUI clients as an alternative to its GTK client. I don't think Transmission is a good example.
- dpassens 3y ago
  Transmission uses Qt on Windows, either GTK or Qt on Linux, and something AppKit on macOS.

rokkitmensch 3y ago

And it's a Google project, which means as soon as the low-hanging promo fruit is harvested it will immediately go EOL.

seabrookmx 3y ago
Like golang? Dart? Or Angular? They kill consumer products not programming languages or major frameworks..
- krasin 3y ago
  > Angular Well, Angular is kind of dead now (or rather - will be). See https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1770478763253379488 https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1770478763253379488 > Today we have some exciting news! We're merging frameworks! Angular and Wiz! Wiz is awful and it's my read that a Wiz manager "won" a corporate battle and Angular (as it was) is dead.
  - seabrookmx 3y ago
    Isn't Wiz internal only at Google? How can it replace Angular (honest question)?
- wiseowise 3y ago
  These folks built their whole business on DartAngular only to be dropped when some manager decided that it’s time to push Flutter. https://medium.com/wriketechclub/wrike-is-sunsetting-its-angulardart-usage-ff309a75ad7c https://medium.com/wriketechclub/wrike-is-sunsetting-its-ang...
  - seabrookmx 3y ago
    Hardly anyone used the Dart Angular bindings so it was not surprising they got dropped. They were an early adopter and got bit.. this happens everywhere especially in frontend web development, and is certainly not specific to Google's frameworks.
- 3y ago