On: The Gnome Project is closing all its mailing lists

[malermeister]

Well yeah, if you use a gnome app, it'll look like a gnome app.

In other news, if you use green paint, it'll paint things green.

[simion314 → malermeister]

GTK was a GUI toolkit, it was DE agnostic and also cross platform (though it looked like shit). But as we can see from your comment GTK was captured by GNOME to be a GNOME exclusive project, if a change broke XFCE , GNOME people pretended they do not know what an XFCE is.

[malermeister → simion314]

GTK has long been under the GNOME umbrella.

The XFCE folks are welcome to fork GTK to support their own use cases.

[simion314 → malermeister]

>GTK has long been under the GNOME umbrella.

Did you know that GTK was a cross platform tookit, even on Windows and Mac OS? Andf you did not had to install GNOME on Windows to use a GTK app, because it was a tooklit for making apps, and GNOME was a project that combine GTK apps, and a window manager to make a DE.

Many apps ported to Qt so I don't think there is a chance that GTK will get a viable fork, Qt will be the only cross platform toolkit

[laserdancepony → malermeister]

Nice, the now popular dev worldview "break things, and break things often". Just for the sake of breaking. I love it, why didn't we stumble earlier over this magnificent piece of discovery.

[rascul → malermeister]

They don't need to fork it. GTK is only tied to GNOME for maintenance and development. Using GTK in an app doesn't make it a GNOME app.

[lvass → malermeister]

I didn't know chromium was a gnome app. Now I hate them for manifest v3.

[rascul → lvass]

It's a GTK app, not a GNOME app. I mean, it uses GTK, but it has no dependency on the GNOME desktop.