GTK Ticked-Off

[Net Llama!]

On 09/09/03 19:58, James McDonald wrote:

>>>Yes, in an ideal world there would be a stable API for everything, and
>>>new versions would not be a big problem.  Pigs will fly first.
>>
>>In the interests of equal time, "the rules" allow breaking compatibility
>>between major revisions, and the jump from 1.x to 2.x certainly
>>qualifies as a major revision. It would be nice if greater effort were
>>expeneded to ensure backward API compatibility.
> 
> 
> I noticed that in some of the backwardly compatible API's developers are
> saddled with the good and the bad from a previous implementation and the
> extra effort to maintain compatibility.
> 
> Doesn't the re-implementation of certain API's help to create what could
> be a great leap forward when the newer version comes out
> 
> I'm not a developer but isn't gtk2 far superior to gtk1.x?

Not from an end user's standpoint.  I've started using gtk2 apps, and they 
are far more bloated than the gtk1, much like qt1 was far less bloated (and 
the only KDE based release) than the latter releases.


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