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by thejammahimself 1156 days ago
I feel like for GTK, there just aren't a lot of resources out there for it. And that links into the fact that GTK is only really used on GNU/Linux which represents an incredibly small share of all desktop users (even though it can be used cross-platform I believe). So its one of those cases where I think to learn it, you kinda have to look at samples, and source code from other projects.
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3v1n0 1156 days ago
Gtk is multi platform.

Being used more by linux doesn't change its nature, and plenty of stuff you never realized use it in many platforms.

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PaulDavisThe1st 1156 days ago
Not entirely true. The resources devoted to making sure the backends for non-Linux platforms are correctly designed and implemented suffer a bit.

I say this as someone using GTK and who was forced to contribute quite a lot of fixes for the macOS backend (in GTK2), because I was one of the few people using it in the way we do on macOS.

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