On 13-11-12 03:48 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
Why to switch to other toolkits?!
I not understand what don't good in GTK+.
And also - why to keep GTK+ 2?
GTK+ 3 avilable in all distro, also in older distro,
it also work in Windows and also in Mac. this
because GTK+ 3 released before almost three years.
Because many distros are more than 3 years old and still supported. Geany
has users (and developers) in commercial and academic environments which
will often be constrained to older (but still supported) versions of Red
Hat, Scientific Linux, Suse etc.
Its fine for hobbyists to want to play with the latest, we only have one PC
to change over, but institutions often have hundreds or thousands and have
all sorts of specific software to ensure still works when they upgrade.
That's a fair[1] argument *if* those old distros aren't shipping GTK3
binaries/libraries (I can't say whether they are or not), otherwise it's
a bogus point because then we're only talking about a very very small
number of users who (all of these must apply, not just some):
- Use an old, nearly end-of-life enterprise distro
- Don't have admin rights or clout enough to get admins to install newer
versions of stuff
- Need to compile Geany from source, from the absolutely bleeding edge
head of Git, rather than using the version they're "supposed to" as
available from their distro and supported by their IT personnel
- Refuse to take a few hours to compile newer GTK+ stack in $HOME
- Can't or don't want to run a virtual machine, bootstick or live distro
to get access to more modern software
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
[1]: Well not completely fair, because they're making Geany development
harder and holding back progress/improvements for the sake of having to
use latest Geany releases instead of older, stable and supported
versions, and even then still need to be able compile from source code
and permissions to install development packages and such which I imagine
are unlikely to be pre-installed for them by their sysadmins.
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