Actually I didn't call somebody a despot. On Sat, 14 May 2016 11:58:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >Note, several coders who used gtk for their apps, plan to switch to Qt, >they won't take the despotism anymore.
This sentence explains what several coders feel, it not necessarily reflects my opinion. Taking a look at https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/ I guess the most famous example is what people such as Linus Torvalds think about the way Kay Sievers tries to manipulate the Linux community. I guess you don't need to google, you are aware of this lack of peace. As already pointed out "despotism" is a soft word, compared to the words most Linux users find, resp. think about the strategy of some (not only GTK/GNOME) developers. In short, there's an approach of some developers and GTK/GNOME is a big part of this approach, were coders consider it fair to expect that if they introduce bugs or drop backwards-compatibility even within a major release, other coders should fix the issues they cause. The word "despotism" is for force and it fits very well, since coders are quasi forced/feel the need to switch to Qt or to "accept" that other developers don't comply with fundamental rules. However, you are member of https://www.gnome.org/foundation/membership/ , so we could finish the discussion about the GTK/GNOME issue and continue using the mailing list to Evolution related things. Regarding the topic: That the soname is broken, could be a bug by accident. That most, if not all GTK themes get broken broken _within_ a major release of GTK, by an official stable upstream release of GTK, never ever is an accident. Actually we can't blindly believe percentages that claim that most users dislike GNOME, but we can blindly believe that there are good reasons that Mate and Cinnamon quickly became well maintained desktop environments of major distros, while they still are based on GTK, but then again, that LXDE tries to switch to Qt is a popular example for the GTK issue. I'll read any replies, but from my side this is the last mail regarding this off-topic thread. Note, I didn't start the off-topic, my original reply was about helping the OP, so I mentioned the gtk3 3.20 issue. While my guess with the theme issue didn't exactly catch the culprit, I anyway was right with my guess, that it's a gtk3 3.20 related issue. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
