Could we just fork it? (Score: 1) by skarjak@pipedot.org on 2014-07-09 22:28 (#2DQ) I can't say I know all that much about graphical toolkits, but could we just fork GTK, using GTK2 as the base? Most of my applications use GTK2 and I'm pretty happy with this state of affair. The GTK3 ones tend to break things. But I really prefer the modular nature of GTK. When I need to use other toolkits, it tends to pull 50 libraries... Re: Could we just fork it? (Score: 2, Interesting) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-07-09 23:34 (#2DS) The code is easy enough to fork, but the trick is to have an active developer team that can then continue its development. GTK has traditionally been developed by paid Redhat employees who also work on Gnome.Mate is a project to maintain and continue development of Gnome 2 (including GTK2) and seems like the most likely place for such a task.
Re: Could we just fork it? (Score: 2, Interesting) by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-07-09 23:34 (#2DS) The code is easy enough to fork, but the trick is to have an active developer team that can then continue its development. GTK has traditionally been developed by paid Redhat employees who also work on Gnome.Mate is a project to maintain and continue development of Gnome 2 (including GTK2) and seems like the most likely place for such a task.