Mark Haney wrote:
> You're right, it's not a huge amount of data for the dependencies. I just
> have this thing about Gnome apps in general. They never seem quite as
> good as the KDE versions. Though, the maintainers attitude also makes a
> big difference to me. I don't use apps from people who act like that. (If
> that makes sense.)
There are two main issues that make me avoid GNOME/GTK+ applications
whenever possible:
1. The official GNOME applications and even some GTK+ ones share the same
"no features, no options" design that is making the GNOME desktop
unusable.
2. GTK+ is getting worse and worse at integration into non-GNOME desktops
with every release:
* They regressed theming support (no more support for theme engines, only
SVG).
* They redesigned the dialogs to look like crap without client-side
window decorations (and unlike Qt, GTK+ still does not support using
native dialogs).
* They use nonstandard "*-symbolic" icons which look ugly with any
non-monochromatic theme (e.g. with Oxygen – it's less drastic with
Breeze, but you still won't get the native Breeze icon even where it
exists; they also deliberately exempted *-symbolic from the standard
freedesktop.org fallback rules that state that foo-symbolic should fall
back to foo BEFORE falling back to another theme, forcing their theming
choices on the user instead).
* They redefined how clicks into the scrollbar are handled (making it
inconsistent with native applications).
* They no longer honor device DPI by default.
etc.
Kevin Kofler
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