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GTK+ 2.0

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

Some random reader sent in: "Gtk.org all of a sudden (?) says version 2.0 is available. There is a FAQ for 2.0. Here is a mail from the gtk-devel-list with some 'pre-release release-notes' :)."

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  1. GTK 'plus' by Ed+Avis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the version number jump, you'd think they would have taken the opportunity to rename it from GTK+ back to GTK, which is what everyone calls it anyway.

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    1. Re:GTK 'plus' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      - Yes and also chang the meaning of the G from 'GIMP' to 'GNU' or something else (Gawd-why-not-do-it-with-a-real-object-oriented-la nguage comes to mind :)

      OO is a way of looking at problems, thinking and designing software, not a language. You can write pretty good OO programs in plain C and other "traditional" languages too.

    2. Re:GTK 'plus' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Ever try using a screwdriver to pound a nail in?
      Uh, yes, I have. The question is whether I've used a hammer to screw a nail in. No, I haven't. Didn't think so.

  2. Whence Gtk-Perl and others? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I find it kind of disturbing that people who use gtk-perl seemingly are out of focus as to how Gtk-2.0 affects them; or if it will.

    Are any of the language bindings going to keep tracking Gtk, or is 1.2 going to be "it" for everybody? I've noticed the PyGTK people are still whacking away, but it's been pretty much quiet on the western front otherwise.

  3. Re:Wow.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There are a lot of people depending upon this library, and to just not release it for months and months due to trivial bugs would be much worse, and it would get just as many clueless Slashdotters bitching about it.

    Applications like GIMP don't suffer from this problem so much because everything in the world doesn't depend upon them. If GTK 2.0 never got released onto the world because there is some obscure bug that only affects Irix users with a certain configuration, or something ridiculous like that, then applications like GIMP and GNOME could never release their next versions either.

    GTK 2.0 fixes everything that needs to be fixed, leaving the minor details for later so that people can begin linking applications against the new libglib-2.0.so and such.

  4. Re:Wow.. by spudnic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The main three things that annoy me about many open/save dialogs that I encounter are the inability to create new directories, no tab (or some other) completion, and the inconsistancies between them. Sure, let all the folks create their own systems, but at least create a common API at some level so that if I'm using a KDE app in Gnome I get the standard Gnome open save dialogs.

    It really shouldn't be that hard, especially for something as simple as this.

    Now don't even get me started on clipboards... ;)

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  5. Re:Wow.. by Havoc+Pennington · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some quick bugzilla.gnome.org queries would demonstrate with hard evidence that you are
    incorrect, if anyone were interested in reality.
    Wait, this is Slashdot. ;-)

    (Apparently I'm in an answer-the-trolls mood...)