Re: State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, John Emmas wrote: > I don't think Tor has any need to be beating himself up over > gtk-win32... I'd agree with that; I've been very pleased with GTK performance on Windows, mostly. This is going with Tor's recommendation to use the GTK 2.16 runtime as the most stable to date

Re: GTK+ MPlayer Frontend

2010-10-28 Thread Kevin DeKorte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/28/2010 10:58 AM, Alex Ermakov wrote: >>> Hello. I'm looking for GTK+ developers, who're interested in development > of >>> GTK+ based MPlayer frontend. I've started to write such frontend just > about >>> a year ago, now it's hosted on sf.net: >

Re: Re: GTK+ MPlayer Frontend

2010-10-28 Thread Alex Ermakov
>> Hello. I'm looking for GTK+ developers, who're interested in development of >> GTK+ based MPlayer frontend. I've started to write such frontend just about >> a year ago, now it's hosted on sf.net: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmpfront/ . But unfortunately I have not >> enough free time to

Re: State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 28/10/10 13:42, z...@excite.it typed ... Take a look at http://www.codeblocks.org/. Not seen that one before, thanks! -- [n...@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [n...@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [n...@fnx ~]# exit ___

Re: State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread John Emmas
On 28 Oct 2010, at 13:35, Neil Bird wrote: > >> So the choice is yours - ease of compilation or ease of debugging. > > Debugging, every time! > Same here! For me, debugging is the most enjoyable part of my development cycle - but only if I have a decent debugger to help me. ___

Re: State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread zz
On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:48:17 John Emmas wrote: > On 28 Oct 2010, at 11:52, Neil Bird wrote: > > > > > So what are the curent issues with the Win32 GTK+ port? > > > > We have a cross-platform C++ class framework that we've developed at work, > > but it still relies on Windows MFC for t

Re: State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 28/10/10 12:48, John Emmas typed ... If I'm honest Neil, GTK2 does take a lot of getting used to if you've come from an MFC background - but once you've gotten your head around GTK, it really works very well indeed. I guess it would; I've used GTK far more, on and off since GTK

Re: State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread John Emmas
On 28 Oct 2010, at 11:52, Neil Bird wrote: > > So what are the curent issues with the Win32 GTK+ port? > > We have a cross-platform C++ class framework that we've developed at work, > but it still relies on Windows MFC for the main GUI aspects. I've always > anticipated that should we be a

State of GTK+ on Windows (Was: gtk 2 or 3)

2010-10-28 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 28/10/10 09:35, Tor Lillqvist typed ... GTK+ 2 is to some extent usable on Windows, sure. Unfortunately, for some aspects, earlier versions (up to 2.16 or so) are better than the later ones up to the current stable version (2.22). So what are the curent issues with the Win32 GTK+

Re: gtk 2 or 3

2010-10-28 Thread Aleksandar Lazic
On Don 28.10.2010 11:35, Tor Lillqvist wrote: Sorry but this point is not clear enough to me. Do you mean that GTK+ is not stable enough on Windows (XP,Vista,7)?! [snipp] And yes, I do say all this even if I am by many seen as the maintainer of GTK+ on Windows. As the saying goes, "patches we

Re: gtk 2 or 3

2010-10-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:25, Tor Lillqvist wrote: >> It's impressive to see someone promoting tech from "the other camp" :-) > > Why not? It isn't like it would have any impact on my personal > happiness/income/status/reputation if people use Qt and not GTK+ for > cross-platform apps. Also, I am

Re: gtk 2 or 3

2010-10-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> It's impressive to see someone promoting tech from "the other camp" :-) Why not? It isn't like it would have any impact on my personal happiness/income/status/reputation if people use Qt and not GTK+ for cross-platform apps. Also, I am not employed by anybody to work on GTK+ so I don't see sayin

Re: gtk 2 or 3

2010-10-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:35, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > If you want better cross-platform support, try Qt. (Sure, personally I > wouldn't touch it with a stick. But many people actually like C++, > poor souls...) It's impressive to see someone promoting tech from "the other camp" :-) -- blog: ht

Re: gtk 2 or 3

2010-10-28 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Sorry but this point is not clear enough to me. > Do you mean that GTK+ is not stable enough on Windows (XP,Vista,7)?! Well, that depends on your definition of "stable". It depends much on what the GTK+-using program wants to do, and whether continuous building and testing of the program has bee

Re: gtk 2 or 3

2010-10-28 Thread Aleksandar Lazic
On Don 28.10.2010 09:24, Tor Lillqvist wrote: Right now, GTK 3 is a moving target and developing for it is likely to be quite frustrating. So I second the "when it is stable" point. And of course, in case you choose GTK+ because of the cross-platform support, there is also the "whenever it even