on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:29:25PM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
Sometimes I wonder why PDAs and handhelds went with GTK2
Two main reasons: firstly that it provides numerous new widgets and other features not found in GTK1 (anti-aliased text, multi-display support, UTF-8, etc) and secondly that the vast majority of interesting applications are written to use GTK2 nowadays. Virtually nobody is developing software for GTK1 anymore.
That's 26MB instead of 4MB!
I've no idea what Slackware put in their packages, but GTK2 certainly doesn't take 26MB of disk space.
And GTK2 is much slower than GTK1 which on low-CPU-power is a problem.
True enough. I don't personally have any interest in anything slower than about 200 MIPS, and GTK2 runs at a perfectly respectable speed on that kind of hardware. But I can see that this would be a concern for people working on really slow machines. p.