• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Because it doesn’t need anything in GTK 3 and 4. They’re either cosmetic changes or UX changes and Gimp has no reason to adopt either.

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      6 months ago

      GIMP has had a GTK 3 port in development for years. They just lack the developer bandwidth to finish it. And in general, using EOLed libraries for your very popular application is not great, not for security, not for usability, and not for compatibility with modern systems.

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      6 months ago

      Not true. There are tons of things like Wayland support that are only good in GTK3, and even then likely not complete

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        6 months ago

        When the widget toolkit needs explicit and direct support for the graphics server you’re doing something very wrong.

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          6 months ago

          The way I see it, GTK is really a framework for building cross-platform GUI apps. Then handling display server compatibility makes perfect sense to me.

          If this was meant to be a dig at Wayland, I’m pretty sure GTK also needs explicit and direct support for X11, Windows and MacOS. It just already exists.

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            6 months ago

            It’s not a dig at Wayland. You really don’t want to have to add specific support for the OS directly in your widget library. There should be an abstraction layer in-between that deals with that. If that layer had been there they wouldn’t have to rewrite the whole thing.