[Arm-netbook] Fwd: [trinity-devel] TDE Fundraiser

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:27:47PM -0400, David Niklas wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:50:20 +0100
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > > <lkcl at lkcl.net  
> > >> wrote:  
> > >  
> <snip>
> > > Is there any specific reasons as to why this is better ?  
> > 
> > They're not based on gnome (which in turn is based on GTK).  that
> > alone is good enough reason.
> 
> And GTK is bad because?
> If I were to write a graphical app in C wouldn't I *have* to use GTK?

No.  GTK is the Gimp toolkit, originally written for the GNU image manipulation 
program.

It uses (presumably) the X toolkit (I don't kow its name), which is the 
low-level interface to sending and receiving the network packets for the X 
protocol with the ICCC -- the inter-client communications conventions, which 
goern communicataions with a window manager.  (I don't know how much of this 
is now obsolete i ws using X in the 80's, and I gather it at least hs remained 
more or less compatible; there's a lot less flexibility in X nowadays, as far 
as I cana tell)

There's no reason other systems shouldn't be built directly on the X toolkit.

Qt, is presumably another such system.

And the problems with GTK is that the developers have mpved on to another major 
release that, I'm told, isn't very compatible and old code is dying.
It's another of the systems that have been forked.  I don't know how well the 
old release is being maintained.

-- hendrik