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Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux

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El 12 Apr 2026 00:32:30 GMT, rbowman escribió:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPdIBLk__tY
> 
> So, I started out looking for tab for 'The Fields of Athenry', fell into
> the internet rabbit hole, and wound up here. I found it to be
> interesting.
> 
> It echoes my personal experience. While I am primarily a C programmer
> and mostly worked with Motif/Tk my initial feeling was Gtk was
> incredibly ugly, and the was a few Gtks ago. However Qt wasn't an option
> for commercial software. It wasn't so much the licensing fees as
> TrollTech's requirements were incredibly opaque. We were paying for both
> developers licenses and the sites were paying for runtime licenses for
> other products. but you could get a handle on the costs upfront.
> 
> As the years went on the two camps grew further apart, plus the
> splinters in the GNOME world as people decided GTK X or GNOME X sucked
> and forked off the old technology.
> 
> Towards the end he makes a point I've also experienced. I run Konsole on
> Ubuntu and that comes with a certain amount of KDE support. There is
> also the 'I've been gnomed' phenomenon. It usually involves installing
> Proton, rebooting, and finding you're now using GNOME instead of
> Cinnamon or whatever else you expected.

This woudn't happen with an inmutable distro, be with Guix or any other 
one.
In order to get another desktop you need to full rebase it, reboot 
and fetch everything else from Guix as an user or via Flatpak.

Your user ($HOME) data will be kept after rebasing, don't worry.

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GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 00:32 +0000
  Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux anthk <anthk@disroot.org> - 2026-04-12 00:35 +0000
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-12 02:55 +0000
      Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-04-12 09:24 +0200
        Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 18:10 +0000
          Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-04-13 13:01 +0200
  Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-04-12 01:12 +0000
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 08:08 +0000
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-12 11:23 +0100
      Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-12 18:14 +0000
        Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-13 14:03 +0100
    Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-04-12 07:42 -0400
  Re: GTK vs Qt: The Two Souls of Linux Borax Man <boraxman@geidiprime.invalid> - 2026-04-12 13:08 +0000

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