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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Compatibility problems with latest GTK+ applications
From:       Thomas_Lübking <thomas.luebking () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-05-09 12:48:40
Message-ID: fed4d53e-d4e2-4a91-b721-2b581c0430ea () gmail ! com
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On Freitag, 9. Mai 2014 13:44:18 CEST, John Layt wrote:

> 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.

Well, wireshark is moving to Qt =) and eg. Audacious devs don't seem very \
happy with CSD either: \
http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1135

It's on their newspage under "More GTK+ 3.x nonsense" ...

The XFCE bugreport [1] Martin mentioned has a rather opposing tone reg. \
bending towards gnome demands (their WM is in the same trap as KWin in that \
to alter the meaning of MWM_DECORATION would require to update all \
decoration themes/plugins), LXDE is apparently about to finish the change \
towards Qt as well ...



=> Is anybody aware of existing efforts for a (plain) Qt zenity drop-in \
replacemt?

Atm. I assume that the only relevant GNOME bit that should probably be \
covered (so that users don't have to rewrite scripts for kdialog or \
similar)

Emacs users are apparently trapped :-( - but there're enough great editors \
(esp. such that focus on being an editor and not a single process GNU OS \
;-)

Atm. I'm in the mood to write some sort of "qtdialog" this weekend, that \
one could symlink to "zenity" and then simply ignore this (and other) GTK+ \
moves into self-isolation.

Cheers,
Thomas

[1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10631


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