Re: Why are people sticking with GTK+ 26.? (Re: GTK+ modularization)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 20.07.2006 02:09, Carl Worth wrote:
> I'm personally interested in hearing more details about what your
> motivation for sticking with 2.6 is. If it's performance concerns, (as
> is the case with others I've talked to), then I should point out that
> I'm personally very interested, and planning on fixing those
> performance problems.
There are two platforms where currently only 2.6 is available.

First there is Maemo for the N770 discussed elsewhere.

The second one is win9x. Although mostly obsolete the use of gtk+ there was
finally broken by the cairo dependency, i.e. >= gtk+2.6.x. I wouldn't call 
this stick to Gtk+ 2.6 but just leaving the backdoor open ;)

Another thing stopping full adoption of cairo is the apparent lack of 
interest in better win32 support. At least for me it seems to be very
difficult to get patches accepted, which deal with pure win32 stuff.
See http://hans.breuer.org/gtk/cairo.html for some examples.

The recent switch to a very Linux orientated version control system does
not help either.

And finally although the current feature set is nice and moving in the
right direction it is still not competitive to what's possible with regard 
of (win32 native) print support for years. See 
http://hans.breuer.org/dia/dia-cairo.htm


Regards,
	Hans

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