On Sat, 15 May 2010 00:52:04 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2010 00:50, Juha Manninen wrote: > > advanced features and then you must update. If it takes few years then > > Lazarus > > will be much better and GTK2 is already replaced with something better, so > > you > > can skip it. :-) > > Hopefully Lazarus would have reached v1.0 by then. :-) > > What I find strange though is that GTK2 is now at 2.30 (I think), yet > Lazarus developers (and users) are still talking about *not* bumping > the lowest supported GTK2 from 2.6 (I think) to something newer. It would be good to provide a second gtk2 binding which supports dynamic linking for newer functions. Then the lcl gtk2 interface could use newer functions. > 2.6 -> 2.30 is a lifetime apart! Surely it's time Lazarus starts > taking advantage of GTK2 features that have appear in the last 5+ > years of GTK2 development? LCL-Qt was very quickly bumped from Qt v3 > to Qt v4, so why not GTK2? Speaking for myself: I got problems running qt-lcl on all computers. LCL should at least run on two year old systems. Better some more years. > [um, maybe I should restrain myself from posting to the Lazarus > mailing list again - I'm asking way to many questions. <wink>] Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
