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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
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> On 07/12/2015 04:46 PM, Kovacs Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> What are the alternatives? Stay on Gtk+ 2 or Qt?
>>
>> Why do we want change something, which is not broken? Do we have
>> some issues with GTK2? I don't think so. GTK3 is ugly. Why do we
>> talk about it?
>>
>> If we must change, then change to QT.
>>
>> I think GTK2 is okay. There are a tons of other things to do with
>> gEDA.
>
>   Seconded.  GTK2 looks and works great.  There's a reason why many
> people and projects have stuck with GTK2 rather than "upgrade" to GTK3.

I am not a fan of GTK3. Qt has other complications. There was a
movement afoot to unify the windows spawned by gschem into one format.
I think that needs to be giving an extra going over. Then we need to
migrate over to a unified HID interface as PCB did. That is assuming
someone (not me) really wants to put the labour in.

As much as I like GTK2 I have a strong feeling that the whole GTK vs
Qt debate will be moot in a few years. The embedded space will bring
sanity back to the GTK3 developer's footprint. If they even persist
that long, a lot of people were alienated by GTK3. Qt already has an
embedded version. What they need is a way to scale between the two
with less effort. GTK will evolve too.

OT: does anyone else wonder what this will do to the space?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/0147256/google-to-replace-gtk-with-its-own-aura-in-chrome

Why not just go to Qt whole hog? Well for one thing we have higher
priorities, for another Qt's license options are GPL3 or LGPL2/3. The
GPL3 dependency is something I for one would like to avoid.

>              -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA



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