D Binding to GUI libraries

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 04:15 -0400, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> 
> That's pure nonsense: It's Linux - unless one option actually goes
> away 
> (KDE is still actively used and developed), then there's no such
> thing 
> as one "winning" over the other.

Hardly nonsense. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora all prefer GNOME over KDE, so
GTK+ over Qt.

> It IS a big problem that far too many people (mainly developers
> coming 
> directly from the Windows world who have decided to half-ass a Linux 
> port) have decided to erroneously equate "Linux" with "GTK-based DE" 
> these days, but that's a far cry from saying that GTK/GNOME/Unity
> "won 
> out" over Qt/KDE.

People coming from Windows or macOS are genreally unaware of the notion
of choice when it comes to UI. That Linux provides a choice is clearly
alien to them. That I have chosen GNOME over KDE is a personal choice,
but I like having the choice: I like that others can choose KDE or
Cinnamon or whatever.

[…]
> Programmers writing GUI apps often like GTK. Nobody else does. From
> a 
> programmer standpoint, it may very well be nice. But that's
> irrelevant, 
> because from the user standpoint, GTK is, and has always been, a 
> steaming pool of diarrhea, even if you ARE using GNOME/Unity.

GTK+ is fine and dandy. That you do not like it is your choice, and
that is fine.

-- 
Russel.
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