[Lazarus] GTK 3.0

[Andreas Berger]

On Wed 13/07/2016 07:32, Santiago A. wrote:
> El 12/07/2016 a las 13:54, Juha Manninen escribió:
>> 1. Nice modern object oriented API which breaks sometimes to keep it clean.
>> 2. Xlib and Win32 stable APIs for eternity.
>>
>> I choose option number 1.
> I choose 1 also, me and everybody. Supporting backward compatiblity is a
> burden and sometimes you have to leave it behind to evolve. The
> discussion is what means "sometimes", once each 20 years? Software for
> Win95 still works in Win10, or once each 6 months? Like GTK.
>
> In the link it's said that themes for Gtk 3.18 don't work properly in
> 3.20. Not even a mayor version. And it is not an bug, but a feature.
> That's crazy.
>
> And now, Gtk developers promise six months incompatibility and a dozen
> of versions running up and down. The work like if they were maintaining
> a final software, like LibreOffice, not Library. That's crazy, I would
> like to see them programming if XWindows were protocol that changed each
> six months.
>
> Let me put it this way, until they reach a stable version for a long
> time (5-10 years), this is will be a mess and people (and so distros)
> will stick on old versions. If they plan to never reach a stable
> version, people will stick on very old versions, and eventually they
> will move to another more modern tool, and that more modern tool won't
> be that week's GTK version. (People is already talking about QT)
>
Well said!