[Info-vax] GUI designs

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Thu Jan 4 19:55:18 EST 2024


On 1/4/2024 5:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 16:02:01 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> ... will GTK2 and GTK3 stay supported?
> 
> GTK2 has long since been abandoned by the GNU project, yet that hasn’t
> stopped other groups from taking it up and continuing to build on it. If
> necessary, if it turns out that the GTK3→4 transition is also disruptive
> (and seen to be unnecessarily so by at least some people), then the same
> thing will happen with GTK3.
> 
> This is all open source, remember. As long as somebody cares enough to do
> the work, a project will continue to live.

And for some usage that may be OK, but other may be a bit reluctant
about projects being EOL'ed by original team and existing because
some users do not like the newer version.

Arne




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