Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better

Freshly Exhumed writes "Phoronix has an article about how Dirk Hohndel of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has stirred the hornet's nest with a talk at Australia's Linux.Conf.Au (MP4 file) about what he views as the biggest problem with the GTK: he finds dealing with upstream GTK/GNOME developers to be tough, with frequent abuse and flame-wars, with accusations from the developers that "you're doing it wrong." Conversely, he found the Qt development community to be quite the opposite: willing to engage and help, with plenty of application developer documentation and fewer communication problems than with their GTK counterparts."

Comments

Woot!

[Anonymous Coward]

There hasn't been a good GTK / Qt flamewar around here for ages!

Now that Qt is free, shouldn't we be migrating away from GTK?

Re:GTK is trash

[Anonymous Coward]

pissing you off, mainly.

And why are we listening?

[evilviper]

That's awfully big talk, from the company that unleashed EFI upon an innocent and unsuspecting public.

Re:GTK is trash

[Chrisq]

One word: C++.

That's three!

Re:It's true!

[t_hunger]

So Linus and Dirk are not compatible with 'old'-style linux users? That is hilarious.