Quoting Jochen Fahrner ([email protected]): > Am 22.02.2017 um 10:12 schrieb Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI: > > > > Move from Gtk to Qt ? > > > > > > If you want to completely avoid Gtk, you have to go without many > non-gnome apps like LXDE and Xfce desktop environments, Claws Mail, > AbiWord, Chrome, Firefox, Midori, Pidgin and many more. > > Do you really want to go without Firefox or Chrome?
Fortunately, this is basically a rhetorical question on your part. I don't think anyone present wants to do away with gtk, especially gtk2: It's just a lib. In my own view, if an application's dependency tree isn't too absurd, I don't mind a few more libs, so e.g., AbiWord is easy to justify even though I have no interest at all in GNOME. When you get to the bloat level of KMail dependencies, on the other hand, that's where I balk. (People's tolerance levels obviously differ.) IMO, the interesting question is what _DEs_ will do about the gtk3 GNOME-centrism problem. I mean those affected, of course. We've seen what LXDE did: bail and migrate to Qt5. ROX Desktop and Xfce4 are the other gtk2-based DEs. ROX Desktop has had little sign of life in six years: I think they're done. Which leaves Xfce4. Other DEs outside the gtk2-to-gtk3 conundrum: KDE: Qt5 Cinnamon, MATE: gtk3 (to the extent that these are DEs distinct from GNOME3) Enlightenment & Moksha Desktop: Elementary (from EFL) Étoilé: GNUstep As a Window Maker / GNUstep weirdo, I admire the crankiness of the Étoilé and Enlightenment / Moksha Desktop people in ignoring most of the world, and long may their flags wave. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
