On 13-06-12 03:43 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013, 15:37:17 schrieb Jack Bowling: >> On 13-06-12 03:23 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: >>> Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013, 15:05:10 schrieb Jack Bowling: >>>> Hi, folks. Just a general question prompted by what seems to be a move >>>> away from gtk as a toolkit by the major distros over the next couple of >>>> years. I currently am an ubuntu user but will need to find a distro that >>>> continues to use gtk if dt does not have plans to migrate to something >>>> else. Any suggestions for the most painless path? >>> >>> WTF? This is the first thing I hear about distributions dropping support >>> for GTK. Are you sure you are not confusing this with GNOME? >> >> I may be reading between the lines a bit. But it has been reported all >> over the place that Ubuntu will be requiring Qt/QML/HTML5 for their >> mobile platforms. As well, they will be developing their own display >> server, Mir. Since mobile is the tail that wags the dog these days, it >> probably will eventually lead to a loss of GTK on the desktop as well >> since Shuttleworth's emphasis has been to harmonize all ubuntu code >> bases on the various platforms. > > Don't worry, Ubuntu is totally irrelevant wrt. the survival of GTK. If they > decide to do silly things it's up to them. People can just use something sane. > And all this fuzz about mobile platforms is going to end soonish too I guess. > >> Jack > > Tobias
Good to hear, Tobias. Will see how the future unfolds. Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
