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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 15 May 2010 01:13, silvioprog wrote:
>
> If Lazarus abandon support for GTK could lose many members.

You totally misread my post. I wasn't talking about abandoning GTK (v1
& v2), only GTK1 because it's often broken and nobody reports issues -
probably because nobody really uses it any more. And as for LCL-GTK2,
Lazarus really should try and keep up with the GTK2 development. GTK2
is already at 2.30 and LCL-GTK2 still says we only support from GTK
2.4/2.6 yet all modern distros ship with GTK 2.16+ at least.  If that
same design idea was applied to LCL-QT, then LCL-QT would currently
only support Qt v2 features.

I really don't seem to understand the Lazarus team's thinking. We will
continue support GTK1 even though no modern Linux distro comes
standard with GTK1 anymore. LCL-Qt is immediately bumped up to the
latest Qt v4 version. But no, LCL-GTK2 is in some limbo land. Not
stable, and not keeping current with the latest GTK2. Yet this is all
ok to the Lazarus team. Maybe I'm just used to working in a
development team that is a lot more organized and has a clear
direction. Enough said on this topic already so I'll stop here.


> Graeme, excuse me, but, do not give up when something goes wrong.

I don't, that's the point. If I see something wrong, I report it (I
already reported 200+ bugs in Lazarus alone and supply patches where I
can). The Lazarus team keeps saying that if something is not reported,
they will not know it's broken. If it's not a code issue, I try and
contribute by give alternative advice. Either way, this always seems
to land me in hot water for some reason. There seems to be no win-win
situation here.


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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