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GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released
GTK 4.0 features new widgets and reworks to existing elements, integrated media playback support, GPU acceleration improvements like work on its new Vulkan renderer, and better macOS support are some of the leading highlights. Some other additions include data transfer improvements, overhauling shaders, GPU accelerated scrolling, custom entry widgets are easy to make, OpenGL rendering improvements beyond the Vulkan work, restoring work on HTMl5 Broadway, better Windows support, and more.
GTK 4.0 is now considered stable for applications to begin supporting it. GTK 3 will continue to be maintained for the "foreseeable future" while GTK 2 is no longer going to be supported beyond one more point release.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @12:35PM (5 children)
fork gtk2 and maintain it yourself.
ideally, some of the current gtk developers will rally behind that, if they see that there's a big enough community who wants it.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @12:42PM (3 children)
Just use Qt.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @02:19PM (2 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history [wikipedia.org]
https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_6.0_Release [wiki.qt.io]
There is no stability to be found when people get paid for constantly reinventing the wheel.
An intermediate layer to isolate program logic from GUI toolkit specifics is a must these days, for anything that need be supported long-term.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @03:01PM (1 child)
show us the code?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @03:27PM
You are welcome.
GTK+1, GTK+2, GTK+3, scripting, and commandline scripting mode, all transparently supported through an intermediate layer:
https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint/tree/master [github.com]
Documentation on how it works inside: https://github.com/wjaguar/mtPaint/blob/master/doc/vcode.t2t [github.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2020, @05:56PM
yeah, and people who use alt DEs can start writing apps for those DEs or forking gtk2 compat stuff. If enough people don't care stuff will die. That's just life.