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Why do you hope they abandon GTK? What would you have them replace it with?
by torstenvl 8mo ago
Why do you hope they abandon GTK?
What would you have them replace it with?
- Gualdrapo 8mo agoEnlightenment. No, really. If they ever move away from GTK (due to the GNOME shenanigans GNOME-izing GTK) I wish Englightenment and Xfce were together a single thing. But that's if I could ask the Tux genie three wishes.
- mghackerlady 8mo agoHell I wish EFL was more used in general. I was thinking QT (mainly because I forgot about EFL) but that's much better
- torstenvl 8mo agoGTK4 is still pretty usable without libadwaita and all its Gnome-isms. But frankly I think forking and maintaining GTK3 is preferable to moving to EFL or Qt. GIMP is still on GTK3. MATE is still on GTK3. Inkscape is still on GTK3 (but GTK4 work is in progress). Evolution is still on GTK3. I think GTK3 will be around for a long time.
- silon42 8mo ago+1...
- badsectoracula 8mo agoIf they do not mind introducing C++ (they're introducing Rust so i guess multilanguage development isn't out of the question) then FLTK could be an option, though it'd probably need to improve its theming support. They both have kinda similar roots in that XFCE originally used XForms which was an open source replacement of the SGI Forms library while FLTK also started as a somewhat compatible/inspired opensource replacement of SGI Forms in C++.