On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Paolo Donadeo wrote:It's a bit strange. Each and every time I've been feeling the same but
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a list of things that people find bad in (labl)gtk.
> > Would you be able to put clear words on what you dislike?
>
> Very simple. Each and every time I open the GTK API reference [1] I
> feel like being catapulted in a distopian world, where nothing is
> clear. Compare with the documentation of QT.
with Qt and GTK swapped. Only proves that people are different though.
(and makes me wonder what is the fundamental difference)
As Kakadu mentionned, I believe it's mostly a matter of themes.
> Second, I notice that there isn't a single GTK program with a decent
> GUI, from the look and feel point of view. I use GTK programs everyday
> (as a Linux user) but this doesn't mean I don't consider it
> essentially... ugly. Compare with the average GUIs of an average OSX
> application, but even Windows is probably better and more refined.
>
> It's *NOT* a problem with LablGTK, but with GTK itself.
Unfortunately they tend to not evolve much.
That said, visually appealing themes are much easier to write with a DSL
and that's pretty much Edje (EFL) and QtQuick. It's both simpler and
more powerful.
Hopefully, these are getting more widespread (yay, people discover DSLs
again!).
(I found that it mostly matched what I'd like for a fairly low-level
documentation =/ )
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Adrien Nader
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