Re: Programmer's criticism of GTK2

[Maxim Koshelev <max krascoal ru>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> "Norman Black" <stonybrk ix netcom com> writes: 
>
> > For simplified functionality one can provide a simplified interface. The
> > GTK developers apparently decided to blow that off. After all, why
> > should they write that code once, when all of us can each write such a
> > thing for ourselves, or we can deal with the complexity on each an every
> > instance we use the control.
>
> You're right, our goal is to fuck you over and write sucky APIs. And
> then we make the source code and development mailing lists closed, to
> keep you from contributing to or commenting on the APIs as they are
> plotted in our evil minds. Don't get me started on the private bug
> database that no one can see or add to.
Unfortunately Norman is right. Why all of us have to write the same by
self when GTK can contain it? And Havoc, We not say that GTK2 is bad!
Just we state that GTK2 CAN BE BETTER (in some cases MUCH better).