On 28.11.2015 02:56, Matthew Brush wrote: > On 2015-11-27 9:57 AM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote: >> [...] >> >> Enough. If the gtk+3 developers want to target the mobile market >> or something, so be it. [...] >> > > I feel your frustration. The overall Windows support by GTK+ has > severely degraded with GTK+ 3 in a number of ways: > > - Uses touch-style GNOME theme which looks absolutely grotesque. > We'll have to ship a CSS theme for each Windows version if we > care at all about Geany feeling like a good Windows app. > - A number of common dialogs have been crippled to facilitate > use by mobiles (even though GTK+ basically isn't viable on > 99% of the worlds mobile devices). Also the file dialogs crash > when compiled for 64-bit Windows (ie. the mainstream). > - Doesn't provide any built-in fallback icons, so we'll have > to ship a whole set of stock icons we use from Tango or > GNOME3 theme. > - Can't be bothered to provide binaries as is customary for > Windows software to do. Instead, pawn off the responsibility > to a simulated Unix-like environment which is massive, slow > and requires special scripts in each app to extract all of > GTK+ binaries from a full Unix-like root filesystem install. > - Not to mention specific bugs and regressions as you're > experiencing. > > Personally I'll be sticking with GTK+ 2 on Windows with Geany as long as > possible. > > It's not much better when I'm in Linux either. GTK+ 3 completely broke > (ie. de-activated) theme engines, not even waiting for GTK+ 4, so the > theme engine KDE used which provided almost perfect integration of GTK+ > apps into KDE no longer works and all GTK+ 3 apps look horrid and out of > place now. I'll also be sticking with GTK+ 2 on Linux. > > </rant> > > Sad to hear you're not gonna use Geany though, I find the GTK+ 2 > releases of Geany to still be very usable on Windows 7 and 10.
I full agree with that. Cheers, Frank
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