I can confirm that from speaking to Canonical employees and attending UDS that the tone has been for a long time that they will eventually stop supporting Gtk+ in favor of Qt
At the current rate, 14.04 may be the last version of Ubuntu under which you can run Gtk+ apps unless the community wants to build Mir support for Gtk+. Canonical is building a suite of default apps in Qt and all their third-party dev documentation is now focused on Qt. This is happening. Ubuntu is for Qt. But like ConciousUser has stated, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. That is 100% their choice to make and in my opinion, having a dedication to a single toolkit is a great choice. That's why elementary also has a dedication to a single toolkit and if we built a new display server I can tell you right now we'd have no intention of making Qt run on it. Best Regards, Daniel Foré El jul 10, 2013, a las 1:03 p.m., Conscious User <consciousu...@gmail.com> escribió: > > Em Qua, 2013-07-10 às 21:25 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad escreveu: > >> It also seems kind of weird that a desktop distribution would want to >> make such an enormous amount of applications second class citizens in >> this way. > > They already did. With or without Mir support, The GNOME stack and > Compiz are clearly second class citizens in Ubuntu now. For evidence, > look no further than the schedule of the last UDSes and pretty much > *all* communication from Canonical employees ever since Ubuntu Touch > was announced. > > And just to be clear, because people got confused about this the > last time I brought it up: I DO NOT MEAN THIS AS CRITICISM AGAINST > CANONICAL, NOR I AM IMPLYING ANY SORT OF MALICE OR HOSTILITY FROM > THEIR SIDE. *No* distro can devote the same amount of attention to > all apps. KDE apps have always been second class citizens in Ubuntu, > and that is perfectly fine. > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
