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[Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>
>
There has been quite some discussion in the past about focusing more on a
single toolkit, and as Daniel says, overall we have focused on Qt and QML.
It is the basis of our SDK, we are re-writing Unity in it (the convergence
Unity), and it meets our needs well for the different devices we are
building for.


> 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+.
>
>
See my previous message about the GTK support - GTK support will continue
to work in Ubuntu, but will be rootless X support unless there is a GTK Mir
backend. Some may wonder why Canonical is not investing in this
backend...well, we are focusing our new development efforts on Qt/QML and
we can still deliver our GTK apps via rootless X sessions.


> 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.
>
>
Agreed.

   Jono

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