On Friday, 2014-05-09, 12:44:18, John Layt wrote: > On 9 May 2014 10:07, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote:
> > And in the meantime, the GTK developers themselves have made pretty clear > > that GTK is for Gnome applets, not big cross-platform desktop > > applications: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/562856/. > > > > " GTK+ is primarily intended to be used on the GNOME desktop, using X11 as > > the backend." > > > > "GTK+ must focus on being the toolkit of the GNOME platform first, and > > tackle integration second." > > Thanks for that link, it explains things very nicely. Between their > lack of resources and the "GnomeOS" philosophy it will be interesting > to see how they respond to our approaches: in the article they clearly > state only a mass rebellion from Gtk's users would prompt them to > focus on cross-desktop/platform improvements. I can't help but wonder > if the "implement it without a fallback" approach was partly intended > to force other WMs into supporting CSD their way? > > Gnome is looking more and more like a walled garden these days, I > really don't understand how they think that's the best way to win new > users, but then I'm a pragmatist at heart. It is probably a matter of conserving resources. From their perspective the available options could be * fantastic experience on one primary platform vs * usual/acceptable experience everywhere Given a greater number of developers they might not have to chosse at all, but that's currently not the case. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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