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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 July 2013 00:28, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> See Jono's clarification :)
>
> There is absolutely no reason to believe that not supporting Gtk+ would
> doom Ubuntu to fail. Android and iOS launched just fine without supporting
> Windows or OS X apps.
>

However, neither Android or Ios were designed to be Desktop operating
systems. Ubuntu is. When you connect a big screen, keyboard and mouse to
your phone, you're supposed to get exactly that. In order for _that_ to
succeed, you really do need all the apps you can get. Removing all GTK
applications from the desktop would seriously limit the chance of success.


>
> And in fact, this is not so different from our expectations either. A
> serious OS needs apps that are built specifically around it's platform.
> Cross platform apps suck.
>

Then Elementary OS is planning on writing everything from office suits to
movie editors because none of the current ones are specifically designed
for Elementary? Good luck with that. Guess it'll take a while.


> I would fully expect it to seem odd that someone would try to run GIMP on
> Ubuntu 16.04 just like it would be odd for someone to want to run Krita on
> Ubuntu now.
>


I don't think that's particularly odd at all, since it's possible now.
Removing the _possibility_ of running Krita on Ubuntu, however, would be a
seriously odd thing to do.

Had to take a trip to #Ubuntu-mir on Freenode. I asked about this and
Robert Carr replied: «We've always said that we were creating a GTK
backend. but it's behind anything for the phone or the system compositor of
course :)»

_That_ makes sense.

Robert Carr is one of the big names in Mir development.