[Lazarus] Suggestion: Remove GTK1 support from IDE and LCL.

[Marc Weustink]

Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since Lazarus switched to using GTK2 by default under Linux, the GTK1
>> support and stability has been free falling. Maybe it's time to simply
>> remove GTK1 support because it definitely is NOT a stable platform any
>> more - unlike the "Configure Build Lazarus" dialog suggests, saying
>> GTK1 is stable (like Win32) and GTK2 is beta.
>>
>> This bug report suggests the same thing. GTK1 cannot even be compiled
>> any more. :-/
>>
>>   http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16414
> 
> I'm still tending to use v1 because I've found Lazarus (and a number of 
> other apps) to be extremely slow on v2 when run to a remote X server. 
> This was specifically an X problem which didn't show up on VNC, I think 
> it's now been fixed since when I checked a couple of days ago 
> performance appeared to be adequate on the limited number of systems I 
> tested.

There are still some issues. Last year Paul made some improvements 
regarding mouse handling and from that moment I started to use 
lazarus-gtk2 for development. Resizing/dragging controls still takes 
ages, (but I seldom design forms for lazarus )

Marc