Re: [CinePaint] cinepaint vs Gimp

> Interestingly, the Gtk widget set was originally invented in order to 
> support development of the GIMP.  The Gtk widget set was designed to 
> work efficiently with the display systems of the time and its 
> inventors never considered a need for more color depth or range than 
> one could see on a computer display.  The GIMP extension mechanism 
> depends heavily on Gtk.  The GIMP is a victim of its own success.

GTK is about eye candy without regard to code size. GTK is huge, slow, 
and debugging it is a nightmare. From a project management standpoint, 
it's undesirable to have the GUI toolkit dwarf the application in code size.

FLTK 1.1.7 has a bug in its dual-head code that caused Glasgow to crash. 
I didn't know that when I released Glasgow 0.1. I fixed the FLTK code 
quickly and turned around Glasgow 0.2 right away. I was never able to 
reach a quick fix like that with GTK problems.

Robin

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