Canonical "Won't Fix" GTK+ Wayland For Ubuntu

[Ibidem]

Not even that, we're talking about a few hundred kilobytes here. They don't need weston as a depend, they only need the wayland libraries to satisfy the wayland library dependancies in GTK!

They still would need to add wayland to main, put it on the CD, and make it mandatory for anyone who plans to use anything related to Gtk.

[mark45]

Reason? If anyone is talking about cross-platform high quality code my immediate first suggestion is QT. What makes you / your projects so special that it NEEDS to be GTK?

Reason - I don't do cross platform, I do Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is about Gtk. Qt for Ubuntu is an afterthought, especially after they declared Kubuntu a community project, it was never as polished as Ubuntu anyway.

[jayrulez]

Is Qt different in that regard? I don't think so.

Yes, Qt is different in that regard. You can use the qtwayland plugin with an already compiled version of Qt 5.x.

[GreatEmerald]

As people said in other threads, it's "Qt" and not "QT".

Overall I'd really like to make my projects use Qt, but the thing is that Qt is a C++ library and it does not play that well with C code, and C is still the most popular language (and I generally dislike C++ for its clunky syntax). It doesn't play well with D, either, since the Qt bindings for D project has gone stagnant for some reason. But GTK is C and is well supported by D as well. So even though I'm a KDE user, I'm forced to use GTK at this point...

[0xCAFE]

Use QT then.

Is Qt different in that regard? I don't think so.

[bug77]

Problem is this is about the desktop Linux, which pretty much equals Ubuntu...

Not in my mind it doesn't.

[Ericg]

I (have to) use Gtk only because of this, otherwise I'd be using/programming QT

Reason? If anyone is talking about cross-platform high quality code my immediate first suggestion is QT. What makes you / your projects so special that it NEEDS to be GTK?

[mark45]

Use QT then.

Problem is this is about the desktop Linux, which pretty much equals Ubuntu which pretty much equals Gtk, like it or not. I (have to) use Gtk only because of this, otherwise I'd be using/programming QT. I think nerdopolis has the same reason.

[bug77]

Use QT then.

[nerdopolis]

Why, what's so horrible about it? Need more space? The guy says "no" with such emphasis as if he's asked to sign the devil's contract.

Canonical was in favor of Wayland in 2010 but now they won't even commit to putting a wayland related flag into the compilation process, not to mention significant contribution to Wayland like patches or so. Making their iso grow from like 780 to 785MB is way over the top?

Not even that, we're talking about a few hundred kilobytes here. They don't need weston as a depend, they only need the wayland libraries to satisfy the wayland library dependancies in GTK!