Obviously that's ridiculous to think elementary would write all those apps. Our mission is to build a platform, not every app you would expect to ever find. That's what 3rd party developers are for.
Anyways, as Jono clarified, Gtk+ apps will run in rootless X so no need to freak out. Best Regards, Daniel Foré El jul 10, 2013, a las 3:48 p.m., Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@ubuntu.com> escribió: > On 11 July 2013 00:28, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> wrote: >> See Jono's clarification :) >> >> There is absolutely no reason to believe that not supporting Gtk+ would doom >> Ubuntu to fail. Android and iOS launched just fine without supporting >> Windows or OS X apps. > > However, neither Android or Ios were designed to be Desktop operating > systems. Ubuntu is. When you connect a big screen, keyboard and mouse to your > phone, you're supposed to get exactly that. In order for _that_ to succeed, > you really do need all the apps you can get. Removing all GTK applications > from the desktop would seriously limit the chance of success. > >> >> And in fact, this is not so different from our expectations either. A >> serious OS needs apps that are built specifically around it's platform. >> Cross platform apps suck. > > Then Elementary OS is planning on writing everything from office suits to > movie editors because none of the current ones are specifically designed for > Elementary? Good luck with that. Guess it'll take a while. > >> >> I would fully expect it to seem odd that someone would try to run GIMP on >> Ubuntu 16.04 just like it would be odd for someone to want to run Krita on >> Ubuntu now. > > > I don't think that's particularly odd at all, since it's possible now. > Removing the _possibility_ of running Krita on Ubuntu, however, would be a > seriously odd thing to do. > > Had to take a trip to #Ubuntu-mir on Freenode. I asked about this and Robert > Carr replied: «We've always said that we were creating a GTK backend. but > it's behind anything for the phone or the system compositor of course :)» > > _That_ makes sense. > > Robert Carr is one of the big names in Mir development. >
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