[Info-vax] GUI designs

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/4/2024 8:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely true.

But that is not an attractive solution for the vast majority
of potential users.

Arne