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[Allen Lowe <lallenlowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

However, as Jono said, GTK+ apps will continue to function as rootless X
apps anyway, so no one is removing any possibilites.


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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