Re: [gtkmm] Questions and information

[Andrew <andrea sansottera fastwebnet it>]

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Gtk+ API is good and Gtkmm API is, too. It's enough for developers!

I think that the value of a toolkit like Gtk+ resides in it's 
implementation... it's what users "taste". Mantainers should concentrate on 
it till Gtk+ 3.0 development will be started.

The value of a wrapper like Gtkmm resides in it's ability of following closely 
the development of the underlaying libraries. As I said, gtkmm API is good, 
and it has to be broken only when Gtk+ API change. Gtkmm 2.4 should only add 
API functions which wrap new Gtk+ 2.4 API functions. It would be nice if 
gnomemm 2 will be released in a short time... 

This just my opinion, anyway.

Proprietary libraries? A lot of application written for Gtk+1.2 has not yet 
been ported to Gtk+2.0... it seems to be much more harder than porting Qt 2 
applications to Qt 3. (I have never used neither Gtk+1.2 nor Qt 2/3.. I begin 
writing linux software with Gtk+2.0....so I am not really sure). Porting 
Gtk+2 applications to Gtk+3 is planned to be easier. I hope that it will be 
the same for Gtkmm 2 and Gtkmm 3.

Andrea
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