Also, it doesn't help that the GTK devs don't mind breaking themes every release. http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/a-linux-conspiracy-theory (Apologies in advance for the slightly inflammatory nature of that article) On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Paolo Donadeo wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Adrien Nader wrote: > > > I'm trying to get a list of things that people find bad in (labl)gtk. > > > Would you be able to put clear words on what you dislike? > > > > Very simple. Each and every time I open the GTK API reference [1] I > > feel like being catapulted in a distopian world, where nothing is > > clear. Compare with the documentation of QT. > > It's a bit strange. Each and every time I've been feeling the same but > with Qt and GTK swapped. Only proves that people are different though. > (and makes me wonder what is the fundamental difference) > > > Second, I notice that there isn't a single GTK program with a decent > > GUI, from the look and feel point of view. I use GTK programs everyday > > (as a Linux user) but this doesn't mean I don't consider it > > essentially... ugly. Compare with the average GUIs of an average OSX > > application, but even Windows is probably better and more refined. > > > > It's *NOT* a problem with LablGTK, but with GTK itself. > > As Kakadu mentionned, I believe it's mostly a matter of themes. > Unfortunately they tend to not evolve much. > > That said, visually appealing themes are much easier to write with a DSL > and that's pretty much Edje (EFL) and QtQuick. It's both simpler and > more powerful. > Hopefully, these are getting more widespread (yay, people discover DSLs > again!). > > > [1] for example: http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/gtk-General.html > (I found that it mostly matched what I'd like for a fairly low-level > documentation =/ ) > > -- > Adrien Nader > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >