[Dillo-dev]GTK 1.2 and Dillo's future
As a major fan of lite-weight apps I am very unhappy that so many of my favorite applications are being ported to GTK2. I've been following the Dillo Dev list and I know that there is an effort to port Dillo over to FLTK which may be a good alternative to GTK2. But I have to ask, why not just keep using GTK 1.2? GTK 1.2 is mature, and lite. Perhaps it will start an effort to keep GTK 1.x alive? John
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 14:46, John wrote:
But I have to ask, why not just keep using GTK 1.2? GTK 1.2 is mature, and lite. Perhaps it will start an effort to keep GTK 1.x alive?
As far as I'm concerned, the disadvantages of sticking with 1.2 are: - lack of support for client-side antialiased fonts, multiple displays, internationalisation, and other modern toolkit features - abandoned upstream; nobody is even fixing bugs in 1.2 at this point. - used by increasingly few other programs, which creates a headache for system integrators. For example, every other program in the distributions that I work with is using GTK 2 now. I would love to be able to ship a recent Dillo, but this would mean installing libgtk1.2 and libglib1.2 (plus probably a pile of server-side fonts for it to use) and I can't spare that amount of flash. p.
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