[Info-vax] GUI designs

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/4/2024 2:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:35:14 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-01-03, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Me, I regarded Windows 2000 as the peak of their GUI design, and it's
>>> been getting worse, on average, ever since.
>>>
>> Unfortunately, that seems to be the case with modern GUI designs in
>> general.
>>
>> For example, compare the disaster that is GTK4 with the much cleaner
>> GTK2 ...
> 
> Notice what you are comparing here: on the one hand, two different OS
> versions, on the other hand, two different versions of a GUI toolkit that
> lives entirely in userland.
> 
> In the first case, you can only change the GUI by entirely replacing the
> OS. In the latter case, it’s just a matter of choosing different packages
> to install. In fact, the common Linux distros continue to offer GUI
> packages based on all three versions of GTK from GTK2 onwards, so
> switching between them is a simple matter of logging out of one and
> logging back into another.

You can, but will GTK2 and GTK3 stay supported?

Arne