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On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 14:30 -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On 07/13/2015 11:25 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > Indeed five years ago I started with some Cairo drawing on a GTK drawing
> > area for fun -- later that evolves to my gschem clone. But at that time
> > I was not aware how unpopular GTK now is.
> 
>   Just for the record, I've never gotten the impression (except for
> here, just in this set of threads) that GTK is unpopular.
> 
>                 -Dave
> 

So I really recommend never using a google search term as "GTK vs Qt" or
similar :-)

For example this, but you can find much more

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2dxik3/future_of_gnome_and_gtk_when_whole_world_is/


Some search results may be silly, but there is unfortunately a very
clear tendency. And many developers have migrated their software from
GTK to Qt in the last years, no one in the other direction. I already
said that for myself GTK3 on my Linux box is still fine -- one problem
is, that their is no community left. One single core developer seems to
be still subscribed to main GTK mailing list! Documentation of GTK3 is
really not bad, but asking someone when one has problems is really a
problem. Indeed getting a fine answer is the problem.  For the bad look
and feel on Mac and Windows -- I heard that everywhere. I am not fully
convinced that it looks so bad, saw some screenshots which I considered
OK, but maybe not really native look. At least I have to admit that
Gnome/GTK developers do not care much about Windows and Mac, for long
time only GTK 3.6.4 was available prebuild for Windows, while we had
already 3.14 for Linux. Another problem of GTK is of course the inner
structure with gobject, it is difficult and no new developer will ever
want to work on internal code. But that is only relevant for the few
remaining core developers. For me one big advantage of GTK is that its
plain C API makes it so easy to use it from many other programming
languages. For Qt with its MOC that is really a problem.