Michel, >... I agree with [Sven] on GTK+ 2 vs. 1, so hadn't he beaten me to > it, I would have asked....
Sven didn't beat you to it. He wasn't asking and doesn't care what I think. He is trying to tell people what projects not to work on. > ...why on Earth do you bother with GTK+ 1 instead of 2? Isn't this off-topic? Since you ask, my projects use GTK1 because that is what I inherited. None of the reasons offered for adopting GTK2 are compelling reasons for my situation. In fact, Sven advises abandoning all my projects. By that logic, I wouldn't need GTK2 or any toolkit. A couple months ago I tried to build GIMP 1.3 from source. I spent an entire Saturday on it, but did not suceed. I couldn't track down all the dependencies. Judging from the discussion on gimp-developer I am not alone. Folks there recently put forth the suggestion of distributing GIMP 1.3 binaries because so many people can't build it. That I can't even build the project that is its namesake doesn't encourage me to embrace GTK2. Many advise me to abandon GTK entirely, that Qt would be much more elegant. How would you feel if whenever you posted a technical question you got the same unsought advice from some nut telling you and everyone to abandon GTK? How many episodes would it take for that behavior to make your blood start to boil? For a year Sven has been saying to anyone who will listen that I should quit. It isn't as though my projects lack users or developers. We're growing rapidly. Where does Sven get off trying to tell me or anyone what open source projects to work on? What sort of person deliberately tries to kill someone else's open source project? And, why does the open source community put up with it? Cheers, Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hollywood, California www.CinePaint.org Free motion picture and still image editing software -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
