Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support
by aidenn0 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @11:51AM
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I get the sense that GNOME is the tail that wags the Gtk dog at this point.
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You're not wrong about control of Gtk. But my point was that if GNOME does drop such X11 functionality while the GNOME DE may not suffer, the far more important and larger set of applications that use Gtk will. GNOME DE won't have problems but the Linux ecosystem will.
Re:GTK 5 might drop X11 support
by Crysstalis on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:55PM
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>You're not wrong about control of Gtk
No, the parent comment is wrong. There is no "vertical integration" or control. It's just an open source project. If anyone was interested in maintaining the X11 support, it would happen, or at minimum it would happen in a fork, but there is currently nobody.
If someone is worrying about other parts suffering, they should start contributing now. I doubt this will happen though, nobody has turned up over the past several years, which is exactly why they consider dropping it. Honestly I think most developers who even bother with GTK4 are probably fully on board with wayland, the ones who aren't are still trying to use GTK2 and GTK3.