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by otsaloma 1277 days ago
As a developer of a couple GTK apps, I look at the deprecations in GTK4 and GTK5 with horror. At least one app I'm going to stop maintaining latest with GTK5.

GIMP still doesn't have stable release out with GTK3. Inkscape took a long time. I bet both will have great trouble in the future. It seems we're moving towards GTK apps being either core GNOME (maintained as paid work by Red Hat) or trivial little apps like on mobile (either simple to port or just short-lived). Everything else will slowly die out.
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TingPing 1277 days ago
As a developer of a couple GTK apps I really like the direction the project has gone in. Its a more flexible and performant toolkit than ever before.
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nine_k 1277 days ago
Gimp switching to FLTK or Elementary / Enlightenment would be a fun thing. (I suppose it will never pick up C++ in the code base, so not Qt.)
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