2009/11/29 Vincent Snijders <[email protected]>: > > I want more gtk2 developers (and thus users, that order), so I don't
I want many things too... if I'm going to get those things, is a whole different story. ;-) > reports, because of more windows users, a better win32 lcl and ide and a > lagging gtk2 widget set, partly because of less gtk2 widgetset Well, that's the case already isn't it?? Lazarus and LCL are already very Windows centric (due to Delphi and Windows compatibility requirements), so it will play right into there hands. This is no joke. As far as I understand Lazarus is a lot more "implemented" or stable under Windows compared to other platforms too... Thought I only work under Linux and it seems ok to me. Getting back to the issue at hand... Version numbering has nothing to do with your guys design choice for LCL and lack of experienced widgetset contributors. I still stand to my argument that wrapping existing components on each platform (instead of creating custom written ones) is a disaster! That just invites odd bugs (component works here but not there), causes extensive regression bugs, divides developer effort etc... But that was your guys design, so live with it. I'll emphasize the "divide developer efforts" part. If you guys choose a better design for LCL, any developer could contribute and it would apply to all platforms. This is the case in fpGUI Toolkit, and makes contributions MUCH easier. GTK2 is also not the ideal widgetset for all Linux users - especially from a developer point of view, having to look at the GTK2 API. I personally dislike Gnome + GTK2 (from a user and developer point of view). Clearly other think the same, otherwise there wouldn't be efforts like from Felipe and friends to create a LCL-Qt widgetset. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
