On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:07:56 -0500 Paul Davis <p...@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Sébastien Wilmet <swil...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > > > > To come back to GLib/GTK+, what would you explain about GTK+ that > > is not explained in the brochure? Maybe single-instance > > applications, the recent OpenGL support, some of the important > > widgets (but this latter thing, GNOME users already know what is > > possible with GTK+ since they use daily GTK+ apps). > > > > GTK3's CSS styling feature is a huge draw for many developers. Being > able to take an understanding of themeing based on web development > and apply it to native applications is really a very very nice > feature. I would have talked at greater length about that rather than > GObject, since many developers using any language binding stand to > benefit from CSS themeing, versus the few who might one day use a > little bit of GObject. > > I would cite some of the more unique widgets in GTK also, especially > the newer ones that might not be known by people familiar only with > GTK1 and GTK2.
This may not be relevant to the brochure, but in my view apart from CSS styling the greatest selling point for the GTK+-3 library family (as opposed to GTK+-3 itself) is introspection for bindings. By providing a gobject-introspection binding for a language, you open up most of the gnome stack to that language. Sadly, there remain a number of languages which don't provide this binding and which still separately wrap glib and GTK+-2 (and occasionally GTK+-3); but nonetheless there are decent bindings for python, lua and javascript. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
