{"id":49549648,"user":"LtWorf","time":1788442056,"time_ago":"19 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

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Or he just prefers GTK. I sure like it better than QT.","comments":[{"id":49550469,"user":"LtWorf","time":1788446168,"time_ago":"18 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

No person who has written software with both prefers GTK :D","comments":[{"id":49550609,"user":"kvemkon","time":1788446794,"time_ago":"18 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I can still use and develop GTK2 software in Debian out-of-the-box, but not Qt3 or even Qt4.","comments":[{"id":49550912,"user":"majewsky","time":1788447642,"time_ago":"18 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yes, because GTK2 is so difficult to upgrade to new versions, whereas Qt4 to Qt5 usually only involved replacing a few identifiers (cannot speak to Qt6 since I don't do Qt anymore). That's why distros need to drag GTK2 along even though we are already at GTK4.","comments":[{"id":49553264,"user":"gen2brain","time":1788455181,"time_ago":"15 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I work on the IUP fork, where I have and support the Qt driver, which works with both Qt5 and Qt6, and I only need a couple of checks to make it work on both. I often check if I broke the Qt5 build; nope, all good there, hard to break. For GTK3 and GTK4, those must be separate drivers; there's no way you can handle that with a couple of checks. Everything is different. That was possible to some extent and works with GTK2/GTK3 (single driver), but there are so many checks and workarounds there. Qt is so nice to work with.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49553264"},{"id":49551256,"user":"kvemkon","time":1788448367,"time_ago":"17 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

> so difficult to upgrade to new versions

Perhaps, because GTK developers insist, that GTK2, GTK3, GTK4 are different toolkits.

> Qt4 to Qt5 usually only involved ...

I'd start with Qt3 to Qt4.","comments":[{"id":49559718,"user":"okanat","time":1788488182,"time_ago":"6 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yeah let's start on a specific version that they overhauled the API since computers are getting new hardware features, god forbid a different DPI. And use that as a leverage point against a library that kept their API quite stable for the last 20 years!

Especially when comparing Qt against a library who couldn't keep its shit together for 5 years and is infamous for breaking all sorts of API and removing features.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=49559718"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49551256"}],"comments_count":3,"level":3,"url":"item?id=49550912"}],"comments_count":4,"level":2,"url":"item?id=49550609"}],"comments_count":5,"level":1,"url":"item?id=49550469"}],"comments_count":6,"level":0,"url":"item?id=49550059"}],"comments_count":7,"url":"item?id=49549648"}

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