torstenvl 5 days ago

Why do you hope they abandon GTK?

What would you have them replace it with?

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  • badsectoracula 5 days ago

    If they do not mind introducing C++ (they're introducing Rust so i guess multilanguage development isn't out of the question) then FLTK could be an option, though it'd probably need to improve its theming support.

    They both have kinda similar roots in that XFCE originally used XForms which was an open source replacement of the SGI Forms library while FLTK also started as a somewhat compatible/inspired opensource replacement of SGI Forms in C++.

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  • Gualdrapo 5 days ago

    Enlightenment. No, really.

    If they ever move away from GTK (due to the GNOME shenanigans GNOME-izing GTK) I wish Englightenment and Xfce were together a single thing. But that's if I could ask the Tux genie three wishes.

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    • torstenvl 5 days ago

      GTK4 is still pretty usable without libadwaita and all its Gnome-isms.

      But frankly I think forking and maintaining GTK3 is preferable to moving to EFL or Qt. GIMP is still on GTK3. MATE is still on GTK3. Inkscape is still on GTK3 (but GTK4 work is in progress). Evolution is still on GTK3.

      I think GTK3 will be around for a long time.

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    • mghackerlady 5 days ago

      Hell I wish EFL was more used in general. I was thinking QT (mainly because I forgot about EFL) but that's much better

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WD-42 5 days ago

If you are wishing they used QT instead the fact that they chose Rust only makes that less likely.

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