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Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)?
From: Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:21:06 -0700
On 7/23/13 6:50 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:20:51AM -0400, Evan Huus wrote:We discussed briefly at Sharkfest, and the hope then was that the Qt version would be default for the next stable release (even if that took slightly longer than usual to release). Perhaps the default should become the Qt version instead?As of now the qt version is unuseable. That may change but right now gtk2 is the default and most stable, the there is gtk3 which is hopefully close to gtk2 and qt is a toy right now. While I definitely prefer the Qt-look, I think getting qtshark on par with the gtk versions is very optimistic. So let me rephrase that: Let us make gtk3 the default for now, until it will be superseeded by qtshark ;-)
I don't have a problem with making GTK3 the default over GTK2, but given that: - I plan on making Qt the default for OS X and Windows in the next major release, and - I'm willing to delay the next release until the Qt port morphs from "toy" to "useful" and "feature complete" any time spent on GTK at this point is probably time wasted. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Joerg Mayer (Jul 23)
- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Bálint Réczey (Jul 23)
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- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Evan Huus (Jul 23)
- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Joerg Mayer (Jul 23)
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- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Joerg Mayer (Jul 24)
- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Guy Harris (Jul 24)
- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Joerg Mayer (Jul 23)
- Re: Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)? Anders Broman (Jul 24)
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