The only Gtk+2-based apps that I run all the time are Firefox and Transmission. I'm not sure if the deficiencies I see are due to Gtk+2 and related libraries or the apps themselves. Anyway, for the record, here's my list of annoyances:
* Icon size. When I iconize the application, the window manager (fvwm, mwm) ends up displaying some small or outright tiny icon. 48x48 icons are installed, why aren't they used? Is this somehow configurable? (No, I don't mean configuring the window manager to override the application icon.) * Chromatic aberration. When I run the application on a remote X11 display, some fonts (e.g. the one used for the menus) have colored fringes. I don't know if this is some sort of anti-aliasing gone wrong, but it looks a lot like chromatic aberration in analog optics. This is definitely a problem that affects all Gtk+2-based applications. * Broken combining characters. This concerns Firefox specifically, but I suspect the problem is in some underlying libraries. Combining characters are not displayed correctly. It's very visible on Wikipedia. Diacritic marks in IPA (say, the tilde for nasal vowels) are missing or squished into the base character. Over on the Russian Wikipedia, the stress marks on the headwords float over extra space. The combination of lynx and uxterm can display this better. None of this is new and I guess it isn't OpenBSD-specific either, but it is time somebody mentioned it at least. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
