GTK+ 3 Is Now Officially Available On Windows

[chrisb]

I don't understand why a Red Hat employee would support this. Did Microsoft get rid of their CLA?

[Ancurio]

I don't understand why a Red Hat employee would support this. Did Microsoft get rid of their CLA?

What are you even on dude lol

[chrisb]

What are you even on dude lol

Relying on software that requires a CLA is unacceptable. Isn't it?

"Watch closely to see how competitors to Canonical torture the English language in their efforts to justify how those toolkits should support Windows but not Mir."

[Mike Frett]

Well this was pointless...Focusing attention on the platforms you natively support instead of a platform that doesn't even want you would make more sense to me.

[ciplogic]

Well this was pointless...Focusing attention on the platforms you natively support instead of a platform that doesn't even want you would make more sense to me.

My native platform is Windows: excluding 1 hour at home, I am surrounded at work by Windows only machines.

As for one I see many usages that you may use like Gimp, Inkscape, or other small applications that are ported from Linux to Windows. If you are a devel at least to have a version of the environment to test on Windows. If you want to migrate .Net applications you may just use Mono and Gtk 3 and reboot. If you want to contribute a patch to Shotwell you can take the sources, compile them on Windows and do the patch. It would be silly to install an entire OS for just working on a small fix.

[RahulSundaram]

Relying on software that requires a CLA is unacceptable. Isn't it?

"Watch closely to see how competitors to Canonical torture the English language in their efforts to justify how those toolkits should support Windows but not Mir."

GTK isn't relying on Windows. A volunteer send some patches and the GTK maintainer pushed out a build with those patches making a Windows *port* available. The porting itself wasn't done by Red Hat and Red Hat maintainers will often take patches to support even competitors c.f SUSE patches supporting a different dependency resolver in Spacewalk.

[darkcoder]

How exactly is GIMP not native-looking? The only thing that comes from GNOME are the icons, and the reason for that is obvious. The only difference I have noticed between it and native Win32 apps is that the menu item hover effect becomes all blue at times.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/801/wf7e.jpg/

If you look at the push buttons, the GIMP ones are way too fat like in Gnome, and that can be seen in practically any GIMP interface window. There is more to actually matching a theme than matching just colors.

Also you can notice the misplaced triangle in the pixels button in the center of the GTK+ dialog.

[darkcoder]

More evidence

These 2 screenshots comes directly from the Wireshark blog. Again since GTK+ do not handle other non nix platforms as a first class citizen, you end up with gui's that looks as native as this on a Mac OS (sarcasm here, lol)


Instead, Qt looks like a real Mac app

[GreatEmerald]

If you look at the push buttons, the GIMP ones are way too fat like in Gnome, and that can be seen in practically any GIMP interface window. There is more to actually matching a theme than matching just colors.

That's a really minor detail...