llothar

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by llothar 3y ago
And Gtk3 was not useable for good quality apps until around 3.16 and Gtk4 just become useable with the recent 4.10 (fixing the ugly scrolling bug). Wisdom is to know that technology needs to ripe at least 5 years before they are useable, th
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by llothar 3y ago
Theming is a thing of the past. Unless it comes directly from the App Developer. The idea of general theming looking good is pretty stupid.
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by llothar 3y ago
I think you are talking about the styling API during the 3.10 - 3.16 years. Yes they did but the styling was never an official API. If you can't find the documentation in Devhelp, then it's nothing you should use. For people who t
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by llothar 3y ago
Memory management has not changed. It's just hidden by the compiler. There are just three ways doable: RefCounting, GC or manual. But a few things changed considerably. The background models and that now you go away from NSCell objects
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by llothar 3y ago
10 years is the timespan for one technology transformation (yes, using Javascript Framework of the Day is not new technology). So it's not bad but also far from good or anything special to realize.
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by llothar 3y ago
Not a big deal when knowing that there was just one major version upgrade during this time. And Qt also did not improve any of their tradional GUI parts during Qt5 development, but just added stuff for their embedded customers.
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by llothar 3y ago
Their idea of GUI building is just too bad and backward. You define the GUI by dragging things on a Canvas and some things that are specified in text. What you never want is going through thousands of widgets in a sidebar and a bit here and
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by llothar 3y ago
No definitely not easier at all. Especially because all the drawing code has changed. But Gtk5 port will be total madness. No more modal windows and no more traditional tree view. I can agree that it removes a lot of problems and maintenanc