Re: Bug#968204: Removal of packges which depend on GTK2

On 26 October 2020 01:06:59 Pál Tamás Ács <[email protected]> wrote:
> Technically, Gtk2 and Gtk3 are two different toolkits with a similar name. 
> It's a completely different thing that Red Hat is trying to make us believe 
> that GTK3 is an improved successor of GTK2. It isn't. It never has been.
>
> GTK3 has been very much unstable, full of API breaks and annoyances from 
> the get-go. It's slower due to CPU bloat under certain circumstances, eats 
> up more RAM and is suffering from a serious UX dumbing down to the level of 
> consumer devices like smartphones thus being made less suitable for 
> desktop. Anti-features like mandatory recursive search in File Dialog have 
> also been introduced.
>
> GTK3 was marked stable in many distros despite it wasn't stable at all. 
> Software creators and package maintainers didn't want to migrate to a 
> poorly designed, underdeveloped, buggy graphical toolkit. They either moved 
> forward to Qt or stayed with Gtk2. A famous precedent case is the cancelled 
> GTK3 migration of Audacious. They went back to Gtk2 then moved forward 
> toward Qt.
>
> There must be a cooperation among Linux maintainters outside of Red Hat to 
> save Gtk2 and provide security updates and some critical bug fixes on the 
> maintainer level

Can you please take your conspiracy theories, mis-information and 
top-posting elsewhere, like /dev/null? Thanks.

— Mike