From: Jens Luedicke <jens@...>
Date: 2000-12-18T19:37:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7562] Re: GTK+ on Windows

> Here is what the above-cited article says with reference to "mediocre":
> 
> # But perhaps the most frequent complaint about GTK+ is its mediocre
> # support of Win32. While GTK+ 2.0 includes a framework that addresses
> # this problem, GTK+'s Windows support hasn't ripened like Qt's and
> # Tk's.
> 
> Well, I don't really have any good idea what that means. However it seems 
> to also indicate that such problems, whatever they are, will soon go away. 
> I don't have any idea what fraction of (actual, potential) GTK+ users make 
> such complaints, nor what they mean by "mediocre support" (e.g. printing 
> support, pure windows look and feel, or what?) And I don't have any idea 
> if these opinions are to any extent offset by countervailing satisfied 
> users who would disagree.

A windows-user might not like GTK+'s standard dialogs (File Open, Save, ...).
They might look a little "poor". compared to them used by Windows, Qt or KDE.

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