[Lazarus] Suggestion again: remove GTK1 from IDE and LCL

[waldo kitty]

On 6/4/2010 18:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> waldo kitty wrote:
>
>> unless i misunderstand something, once the LCL_fpGUI interface stuff
>> is done, fpGUI will be a "drop-in" replacement for any of the existing
>> interfaces... GTK1, GTK2, QT, WIN-whatever, etc...
>>
>> do i misunderstand that?
>
> I'd hope that you don't. But right now it seems to me that Graeme is
> kvetching about the fact that Lazarus's GTK1 support is going downhill
> without making it clear whether he really wants to use it or whether
> he's advertising fpGUI as an alternative.

the way i'm reading his posts is that he wants to see GTK1 working if it is 
going to be included in the feature/widget set lists... if it isn't, then remove 
it... make sense, really...

that he mentions fpGUI as an alternative is simply, to me, providing an 
alternative for those that need something that works and is light weight to 
replace GTK1 with if it is going to sit and be dead meat...

> The Linux distreax have in general moved to GTK2 and deprecate GTK1, at
> which point I think it's reasonable for Lazarus to prefer GTK2 (plus
> Carbon, Qt and so on). At the same time there seems to be a consensus
> that something slimmer is desirable, but- speaking as an outsider- I
> think it would be an enormous waste of effort trying to work on both
> fpGUI and GTK1 simultaneously.

true to a point... that point being the existing codebase running on small 
dedicated devices that currently use GTK1... those cannot switch to GTK2 or 
other widget sets because of memory and space constraints... at least that's my 
understanding of the conversations...