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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by lenkite on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:02AM (#30798792)
We probably need to start paying UI folks NOT to change stuff. They can do all their flat-experimenting in custom themes.
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Re:The end of the nice GTK button by berkes on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:12AM (#30800003)
In the case of the article, that is somewhat unfair.

> GTK4 has been in development for a bit and has improved a lot of the internals. One of the great upsides is that it can take more advantage of the GPU when rendering the UI.

So there was a clear need to rewrite parts to fix internals.

> The Adwaita theme has also been nicely carried over and looks very similar to the GTK3 counterpart. ... > When I want to make a gtk4 application for mobile I would need libhandy, but libhandy for gtk4 is not a thing. The "solution" is libadwaita. This provides the widgets I need but it comes with the downside of having some of the worst decisions in application theming.

So, there we have it: it's not "UI folks just changing stuff", its a ground-up rebuild of a UI-language.

Now, whether or not that ground-up should be flat, modern, or just copy the old, is another discussion.

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