Basically using GTK alone became a lot of unenjoyable work for them because they didn’t want to depend on libadwaita and since its something they do for free in their free time it has to be fun.
having targetted both Qt api and the new Libadwaita api, this is going to happen more and more. the new GTK APIs are a pain in the ass and it’s pretty clear they only target GNOME, and since GNOME 4, there’s been no guarantee of API backwards compatiblity. it’s a nightmare.
I mean it works for countless other applications in the Gnome ecosystem, but as you said. If it isn’t fun for them it’s absolutely their right to switch
You can read about the reasoning here.
Basically using GTK alone became a lot of unenjoyable work for them because they didn’t want to depend on libadwaita and since its something they do for free in their free time it has to be fun.
having targetted both Qt api and the new Libadwaita api, this is going to happen more and more. the new GTK APIs are a pain in the ass and it’s pretty clear they only target GNOME, and since GNOME 4, there’s been no guarantee of API backwards compatiblity. it’s a nightmare.
I mean it works for countless other applications in the Gnome ecosystem, but as you said. If it isn’t fun for them it’s absolutely their right to switch
Yes, for the Gnome ecosystem.
Gnome is dogshit though
Oh wow, looks at this nuanced opinion and awareness of taste /s