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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/24/2014 04:49 PM, Joern wrote:
> Maybe we should concentrate on non-GTK apps. GTK is nearly dead for non-Gnome-Shell related stuff. Even Audacious is now switching to Qt. GTK breaks nearly everything every few months including themes, Gnome Shell addons and behaviour like Client side decorations. 
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> Am 24.06.2014 um 23:10 schrieb Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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>> We need a way to change the GTK theme of applications (since most are GTK)
>> I propose gtk-chtheme
>> It is simple and works well.
>> We will of course need a default GTK theme at some point as well
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Well, we will have to support GTK themes as well as Qt.
Audacious might be going to Qt... but for now they are going back to GTK2
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/06/audacious-going-back-to-gtk2-starting.html

I agree that Gnome is breaking compatibility with each new GTK release. 
GTK4 is coming and not everything has been ported to GTK3.  There are a
lot of things developers are doing in the GNU/Linux sphere that are
making users and developers uneasy... however we still need a GTK theme
for GTK apps.  The default 'no theme' looks like Windows 3.1.  I have
been testing JWM, and it was a glaring defect I noticed.  There is a
library that themes Qt apps to use the same theme as GTK apps (more or
less).  So choosing a GTK theme to use is a reasonable choice.  XFCE is
GTK2, LXDE is GTK2 (until LXQt becomes the standard), Gnome is GTK+
Ubuntu is still GTK (for now).
Many apps use the Gimp ToolKit.  My settings app is FLTK, it uses
neither, and will look the same on any DE (unless the global FLTK
settings are changed).

Qt is nice, and can be lightweight (Qupzilla is an amazingly fast
browser even on old machines.. which is something we might consider
using)... but we still need GTK apps to look decent either way.

 

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