However, as Jono said, GTK+ apps will continue to function as rootless X apps anyway, so no one is removing any possibilites.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad < joerlend.schins...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 11 July 2013 00:28, Daniel Foré <dan...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > >> See Jono's clarification :) >> >> There is absolutely no reason to believe that not supporting Gtk+ would >> doom Ubuntu to fail. Android and iOS launched just fine without supporting >> Windows or OS X apps. >> > > However, neither Android or Ios were designed to be Desktop operating > systems. Ubuntu is. When you connect a big screen, keyboard and mouse to > your phone, you're supposed to get exactly that. In order for _that_ to > succeed, you really do need all the apps you can get. Removing all GTK > applications from the desktop would seriously limit the chance of success. > > >> >> And in fact, this is not so different from our expectations either. A >> serious OS needs apps that are built specifically around it's platform. >> Cross platform apps suck. >> > > Then Elementary OS is planning on writing everything from office suits to > movie editors because none of the current ones are specifically designed > for Elementary? Good luck with that. Guess it'll take a while. > > >> I would fully expect it to seem odd that someone would try to run GIMP on >> Ubuntu 16.04 just like it would be odd for someone to want to run Krita on >> Ubuntu now. >> > > > I don't think that's particularly odd at all, since it's possible now. > Removing the _possibility_ of running Krita on Ubuntu, however, would be a > seriously odd thing to do. > > Had to take a trip to #Ubuntu-mir on Freenode. I asked about this and > Robert Carr replied: «We've always said that we were creating a GTK > backend. but it's behind anything for the phone or the system compositor of > course :)» > > _That_ makes sense. > > Robert Carr is one of the big names in Mir development. > > > -- > 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 > >
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