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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm that from speaking to Canonical employees and attending UDS that the tone has been for a long time that they will eventually stop supporting Gtk+ in favor of Qt

At the current rate, 14.04 may be the last version of Ubuntu under which you can run Gtk+ apps unless the community wants to build Mir support for Gtk+. 

Canonical is building a suite of default apps in Qt and all their third-party dev documentation is now focused on Qt. This is happening. Ubuntu is for Qt.

But like ConciousUser has stated, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. That is 100% their choice to make and in my opinion, having a dedication to a single toolkit is a great choice. That's why elementary also has a dedication to a single toolkit and if we built a new display server I can tell you right now we'd have no intention of making Qt run on it.

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

El jul 10, 2013, a las 1:03 p.m., Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> 
> Em Qua, 2013-07-10 às 21:25 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad escreveu:
> 
>> It also seems kind of weird that a desktop distribution would want to
>> make such an enormous amount of applications second class citizens in
>> this way.
> 
> They already did. With or without Mir support, The GNOME stack and
> Compiz are clearly second class citizens in Ubuntu now. For evidence,
> look no further than the schedule of the last UDSes and pretty much
> *all* communication from Canonical employees ever since Ubuntu Touch
> was announced.
> 
> And just to be clear, because people got confused about this the
> last time I brought it up: I DO NOT MEAN THIS AS CRITICISM AGAINST
> CANONICAL, NOR I AM IMPLYING ANY SORT OF MALICE OR HOSTILITY FROM
> THEIR SIDE. *No* distro can devote the same amount of attention to
> all apps. KDE apps have always been second class citizens in Ubuntu,
> and that is perfectly fine.
> 
> 
> 
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