Originally posted by AJenbo
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On the matter of having direction, it had, for a lot of time. With 8, it lost its direction.
Originally posted by Maxjen
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Anyway, something I don't remember stating on the subject is that we would still need wrappers for different languages. For example, I'm more fluent on C and know almost nothing on C++, if we'd kill GTK and leave Qt only, as it is right now I wouldn't be able to code on any toolkit. If they (toolkits maintainers) would ever agree to merge, I think the way to go would be first implementing the killed APIs (not neccesarily all from the same original toolkits) as wrappers, and gradually deprecate the old APIs to switch to a newer one. However, this is not likely to ever happen, and if it does it should take years to allow users and devs to upgrade in a non-disrupting way.
EDIT: As a matter of fact, even when I like both GTK and Qt, I use mostly GTK, because I love using XFCE
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