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Phoronix: Views Expressed Over The Health Of GTK+
After pessimistic views regarding the health of the GTK+ tool-kit project were recently shared on IRC, Alberto Ruiz took it upon himself to create some statistics about the development of this critical component to GNOME to show in fact things aren't entirely bleak...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI2MzY
The GIMP toolkit toolkit oO nice editorial
The most misleading factors are typically charts, statistics and "studies" because one can cherry pick and mold them anyway they like. So a Gnome affiliate conducting a research or so proving Gnome/gtk is doing well is no better than Microsoft sponsoring a study on windows server.
Nice one. Please uncover any faults made by rhe author if they exist.Quote:
Originally Posted by mark45
Btw congratz to gtk. A healthy and truly free toolkit focused on the linux desktop without any antifeatures like CLA.
It is not a study. It shows actual commits and actual number of contributors. Furthermore, "GNOME affiliate", wtf? GNOME/gtk, wtf? The article is really clear, it is really clear what data is shown.Quote:
Originally Posted by mark45
If you think actual commits and actual contributors is biased, then feel free to explain why. Also, please explain how this could be cherry picked.
Criticial thinking is one thing, but you're just dismissing.
Well, the fault is trying to judge the health of a project by the number of contributors. Of course, the issue being discussed was whether there are more or less developers contributing to GTK+ and with regard to that, the trend seems to be going up (though 3.6 seems to have lost about 20 contributors since 3.4).Quote:
Originally Posted by funkSTAR
However, the number of contributors alone tells very little. What really counts is the number of newly enabled features and squashed bugs. That blog post isn't looking at this. The other issue is looking at GTK+ alone. While the author seems to be content with about 60 contributors, you can count just below 200 people that have committed something to Qt during the past year. I don't know, maybe it takes 3x more people on Qt to do the same job as they would in GTK+, but going solely by the numbers being discussed, there are things GTK+ could improve upon.
GTK3 is pretty unreliable.
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2038Quote:
I’ll apologize in advance for the sarcasm here.. I need to take another cheap shot at the Gnome developers here. GTK3 isn’t a reliable API. Maybe it should be called libgnome instead. GTK3.4 came with Gnome3.4, and wasn’t compatible with previous GTK3 themes. This means all GTK3 applications looked really ugly not only with all the GTK2 themes which don’t support GTK3 (almost all of them), but also the few which did. With this in mind we had three options:
- Give you a desktop with poor integration and applications which look different based on the API they use (which is completely unacceptable)
- Ditch all GTK3 applications from Mint and replace them with earlier GTK2 versions, or GTK2 or QT applications (this includes Gnome apps, but also Gdebi, Transmission and a few others)
- Rant like mad, remove all themes, and waste countless hours in giving Mint-X and Mint-Z proper GTK “3.4″ support even though it’s likely to break again in 3.6…
We went for option 3 “this time”. I hope this little example was enough to convince 3rd party developers not to use GTK3. I couldn’t find any release notes or documentation explaining the regression or how to solve the issue.. I genuinely get the feeling that GTK 3.4 is developed for Gnome 3.4, that it doesn’t really matter if it breaks things and that we’re not supposed to use it outside of Gnome.
http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/...ing-in-threes/
Yeah, a survey would have probably been better.Quote:
Originally Posted by mark45
Amiright!!!!????
Gtk3… pff… they can’t even make a scrollbar that works… the list of recent files and folders in the file selector seems to be totally random and is never helpful… CSS is the worst thing that happened on the web and they are using it… Gtk2 is much better.
I know this won't happen any time soon but I'd love it if ShellToolkit became the standard for gnome. Once it merges in the MX work it should be in a pretty good place features-wise.Quote:
Originally Posted by phoronix
Aside from that, someone really needs to get a handle on acceptable behavior for gtk contributors, especially on official places like mailing lists. Certainly I haven't noticed any outright -isms but their attitudes can be extremely aggressive. For a project that supposedly welcomes volunteers that is the exact opposite attitude that should be taken.
Checkout Otte's response to Nekohayo's post (given in the subject since this form will not let me paste into it).