Re: Suggest Adding the Translation Work for ddd to the GNU Translation Project

Hi Michael,


>  Our priority is to replace
> this with more current technology, likely GTK.
>

Only one remark to gtk:

I had developed a large application with gtk3. Now the gnome team
decided to remove all and everything from the web for this release.
Furthermore, it is impossible for me to move to gtk4, because some of
the components of gtk3 are not longer supported ( goocanvas ). There is
no maintainer for this part of the toolkit.

Even if the source of all of ttk3/gtk3mm is available, it is impossible
( for me ) to get it compiled on my PC. The build systems simply did not
work out of the box and is a bit mysterious. Especially goocanvas is
totally outdated and unmaintained which starts with the problem, that
autotools did not work any longer. In fact: No chance to stay with gtk3!

In fact, all my work is lost!

In addition gnome has currently a high number of very big bugs!

1) With fedora 40 upgrade gnome did not support touchscreen for X11
anymore ( Bug/Feature? )
2) with latest update last week I lost second screen support and touch
for wayland was also dropped!

What I want to tell: It looks for ME, that gnome/gtk isn't a stable
development platform. We see feature removal development and also a lot
of quality issues. Touch did not work for around 4 month now and it
looks that nobody is working on the problem. The bug entry is open but
no further comments added there.

My experience with all of that: You/we may look for something more
stable and reliable? No idea what it can be, I am also searching for
something... But moving to gtk will kill ddd some years in the future.
There will be gtk5 and gtk4 will gone also. And this means someone has
to port again... why?


Regards
  Klaus