GTK+ 2.8.0 released [LWN.net]

GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 15, 2005 17:47 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: GTK+ 2.8.0 released by bojan
Parent article: GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Sadly all the modern Mozilla/Firefox type browsers use GTK exclusively. If
not for that I wouldn't really care because the only other GTK apps I
regularly use are XMMS and GIMP. I don't do much text entry in either so
they don't bother me. I don't like using KDE apps because they start all
kinds of background daemons and do strange things to the terminal they
started from. I'm open to trying other browsers though.

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GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 16, 2005 0:30 UTC (Tue) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

Yep, and XMMS shows how a good Unix gui should work! I particularly love the subtle interplay between the gtk1 preferences dialog and file window, and the subtle precisely detailed main interface that is configurable and can even pixel double for those times when you can't steer your mouse down to the single pixel buttons.

GTK+ 2.8.0 released

Posted Aug 16, 2005 1:57 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

XMMS works for me. I use it becuase is very configurable and has most of
the commonly used controls visible in a small footprint. I'm not sure if
it is a great example of a Unix-like program, but at least it's no emacs or
Netscape.

I do have one complaint, which is that it likes to move windows around by
itself, placing transients at the extents of the root window (not the
visible part of the root window), and that window movement should be
performed modulo the size of the screen (which interacts strangely with
transients outside of the upper left portion of the desktop.

Other programs like xv which have nothing to do with GTK have similar
problems, and other GTK apps don't seem to do this so I think it's an
application problem and not a library bug.

It would be nice to be able to resize the program too (to view longer track
names or take allow adjustment of the footprint in a more continuous form
than mini, normal, double-sized).