Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 21 Aug 2022 at 06:46PM +02, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> That would also get us another native Wayland backend, and probably one
>> that would could more heartily recommend to people.
>
> That'd be nice -- but do we have any concrete reason to believe that Qt
> is going to suck less than Gtk?  Everybody has a tendency to think that
> something like this must surely be great -- until they start actually
> working with it, and then they discover all the things that just doesn't
> work (as we found out with Gtk, but only after a few years of actually
> working with it).

Right.  Hopefully someone who already had the background knowledge to
implement a Qt build would be able to tell us why or why not.

-- 
Sean Whitton