On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:21:50AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> nothing is ever perfect from day one, and sometimes to improve a product
> you must break backwards compatibility. Bill Gates have yet to
> understand it.
Of course. For example, the multiline text widget (gtktext) was redone.
The previous widget couldn't even go to an arbitary place in a text
without actually scrolling all the way to it (try search functions
in GNOME-based editors or GnomeICU).
And besides, internally it's UTF-8 now so editors and stuff which
do text handling might need fixing.
> BTW, I'm still in the dark about why not use OO for libraries such as
> this (Graphic toolkits).
QT is C++ and OO. For GTK+, they developed their own system
of containers and objects so they won't have to use C++
(and community people tend to hate C++).
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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