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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Stop playing stupid political games with gEDA
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On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 3:22 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:48 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, 4 Oct 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
>>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Igor2 is off working on something using SDL because it is maintained
>>>> but has a slower release cycle. The logical reason being that we don't
>>>> really care about new gtk functionality but we have to burn time
>>>> fixing things for each major gtk release.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> SPOLIER ALERT: I am not talking about gschem or pcb here; I don't say any
>>> of
>>> the geda tools should or should not use gtk. I just share my personal
>>> opinion about using gtk in general. I won't respond to text that ignores
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Yes, I think GTK is a bad idea long term (for any application), and it's
>>> not
>>> qt that'd solve this. My resoning goes:
>>
>>
>> Google would agree with you they dumped it.
>>
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/12/0147256/google-to-replace-gtk-with-its-own-aura-in-chrome
>
>
> Nice!

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/01/16/1349203/intel-dev-gtks-biggest-problem-and-what-qt-does-better

>>> - GTK doesn't look native on anything else than gnome. Most other
>>> toolkits
>>> have the same property: native only on one or on a few systems. So using
>>> anything else doesn't make this worse or better. (If an app wants to look
>>> native on multiple platforms, it needs multiple native GUI frontends, one
>>> for each platform.)
>>
>>
>> MATE is actively developed and based on GTK2 (migrating slowly to
>> GTK3) because the users and developers like GNOME2 and hated using
>> OpenGL for everything the way GNOME3 does.
>
>
> SDL2 does this cleverly: you can chose, per window, to use software
> rendering or acceleration, when you create the window. There are drawing
> primitives that are compatible with both. I will make it possible for the
> user to switch between sw rendering, hw accel and auto-select (default) at
> application startup-time.

Very nice.

>>
>> I said earlier on the geda-developers list that a good blue sky
>> project would be giving geda a way to have multiple GUI's like pcb
>> does with hid.
>
>
> I second that. PCB benefits from having HIDs - not only because it makes it
> easier to add a new HID, but I believe it made the code better by inserting
> an API between the engine and the UI. I believe gschem could benefit the
> same way.

+1

> Regards,
>
> Igor2



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