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> You’d need to have builds GTK4 & QT Isn’t this just a long about way of saying “no”? Very few frameworks let you flip a switch and build against Qt OR Gtk.
by ComputerGuru 2y ago
> You’d need to have builds GTK4 & QT
Isn’t this just a long about way of saying “no”? Very few frameworks let you flip a switch and build against Qt OR Gtk.
- hysan 2y agoThe whole point of marketing an app as being native to an operating system is to appeal to users by saying that you are explicitly not using a framework that lets you flip a switch. That you are going out of your way to make separate builds in the operating system’s native framework so that it looks, feels, and performs as best as possible. That’s very clear in the messaging of how and why the macOS version was built. If you are going to go out of your way to market being native as your differentiating factor, I think that yes, you have to make separate builds of GTK and QT (and in the future, libcosmic if it gets a large percentage of users) in order to be able to genuinely market yourself as Linux native. So it is possible. It’s just not as easy as picking one framework and hand waving away the rest of a substantial portion of the userbase. I’ll repeat that that is what I find disingenuous with the marketing and about page explanation. I have no problem debating whether or not QT-based desktops are a consequential portion of all Linux users. But if you agree that those users account for a sizable percentage of Linux users, then I think my take is a fair one.