On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:41:08 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: > Ultimately, everything points to the same thing: Those who actually CARE > about GTK/Gnome/Unity vs Qt/KDE, typically prefer Qt/KDE. The rest are > just swing votes.
Unity 7 and prior for the desktop use Nux, an OpenGL-based widget toolkit. Unity 8 and all mobile versions of Unity use Qt. The application set that Ubuntu shipped with Unity was, I think, heavier on the GTK+ side. I can't answer for "typical" users, but I've preferred GTK+ since 2005. Qt applications feel a bit off to me, and the standard themes were all weirdly bubbly. And while I've used probably a dozen window managers and at least four desktop environments, I've been on MATE for several years now. > As for the distros choice of "which do we make default?", that's really > no surprise and implies nothing significant: The tech industry's current > runway-fashion wind direction is clearly "The user should adapt to the > software", not the other way around. Thus fully explains GTK/GNOME/Unity > as the gatekeepers' current suggestions. Just like Win/Mac: "Actual user > opinions: not relevant." RedHat provides a lot of support and development for GNOME. That makes it a relatively attractive option for other distros.
