On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org>wrote:
> 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 > > There has been quite some discussion in the past about focusing more on a single toolkit, and as Daniel says, overall we have focused on Qt and QML. It is the basis of our SDK, we are re-writing Unity in it (the convergence Unity), and it meets our needs well for the different devices we are building for. > 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+. > > See my previous message about the GTK support - GTK support will continue to work in Ubuntu, but will be rootless X support unless there is a GTK Mir backend. Some may wonder why Canonical is not investing in this backend...well, we are focusing our new development efforts on Qt/QML and we can still deliver our GTK apps via rootless X sessions. > 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. > > Agreed. Jono -- Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon
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