[Info-vax] GUI designs

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 19:55:18 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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.

They are free to do the same sort of thing: take over development on a 
copy of the source, and take it in whatever direction they like. Nobody’s 
stopping them.