Preparing To Let Go Of GTK+ 2.x For GTK+ 3.0

[Vegar]

What about performance? Are there any indications that gtk3 will end up with better performance than the extremely slow gtk2?

[d2kx]

GTK+ 2.22 will also maintain source and binary compatibility with the existing GTK+ 2.22

Wow, that is like totally awesome.

[pdusen]

What about performance? Are there any indications that gtk3 will end up with better performance than the extremely slow gtk2?

Slowness is something I associate more with Qt than with GTK. Got any benchmarks I can check out?

[wswartzendruber]

I believe they meant "wobbly windows".

That is not Gtk's function. That belongs to the window manager, like Compiz.

[Zhick]

CSS theming for actual apps? Yikes

QT4 has CSS as well: http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/stylesheet.html
It's actually quite usable.

[nzjrs]

Is GTK 3 object oriented, or is there still going to be a need for something like gtkmm?

Gtk has been object orientated for ages (i.e. GObject supports inheritance, properties, etc). You seem to be confusing the concept of OO with the language implementing it (i.e c++).

[nzjrs]

What about performance? Are there any indications that gtk3 will end up with better performance than the extremely slow gtk2?

Do you have any benchmarks, or any evidence to support that? I would like to file a bug, assuming you are not trolling of course.

[nzjrs]

I hope they'll improve their theme api - this is really long overdue.

The hacks non-gtk apps (FireFox, OOo, Java) have to do make theirselves gtk lookalikes is horrible and dead-slow. Just a theme api which would allow to draw to cairo-contexts would make it so much easier.

- Clemens

AFAIK this was one of the main motivating factors for some of the offscreen window stuff.

[RealNC]

Slowness is something I associate more with Qt than with GTK.

Haha. Ahaha.

Ha.

Get serious.

[nzjrs]

Haha. Ahaha.

Ha.

Get serious.

Stay classy