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GTK+ 2.8.0 releasedGTK+ 2.8.0 releasedPosted Aug 14, 2005 23:45 UTC (Sun) by segphault (guest, #27468)In reply to: GTK+ 2.8.0 released by bojan Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released
zarathustra said: "So Gnome can do whatever it likes, but GTK, if it wants to pretend to be a Unix toolkit, it should play by the Unix rules."
bojan said: "And I checked GTK web site. On the home page, word Unix appears 0 times. Word Gnome appears 4 times."
Darn right. It's also worth noting that it's a cross-platform toolkit, which has to be able to perform well and be comparably intuitive on both GNU/Linux and Windows systems. It's not a unix toolkit, and there is absolutely no reason why it should play exclusively by unix rules. While I think that optimal configurability is important, and I think that GTK should be able to integrate well with whatever platform it runs on, I would never characterize it as a 'unix toolkit'. It's an open source, cross-platform development toolk it, and it's portability is definitely an important feature.
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