GTK2 Support?
lazarus / 3-General

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pascal-rick · 2005-01-29 19:18

Hello,

i will start to program some nice little apps with lazarus (btw,
really GREAT work!). But, gtk1 is soo ugly.... can someone tell when
it will be usable?

thx
patrick

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Lightning · 2005-01-30 08:14

What distro do you have ? (I assume Debian or similar)
It looks just fine on a MDK 10 here.
Anyway GTK2 is in plans
Lazarus has already been compiled with GTK2 but it's too unstable to
be used yet, be patient

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mikiwoz · 2005-02-13 21:22

Hmmm... BTW, are there any changes in the Lazarus' GUI planned?  IMHO
IDE as good as Laz deserves a better GUI

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Lightning · 2005-02-14 11:03

mikiwoz,  what do you have in mind ?
Most users seem to be happy with the current interface.

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mikiwoz · 2005-02-14 23:04

Oh, well, you know...
Just some minor polishing, changing the button images, and so on.
Nothing important, really.
I have a friend, a Delphi freak (such as myself until I found Laz) who
is just trying to find every stupid little disadvantage of Laz.
Well, everyone must agree, that compared to Delphi Laz is quite an
ugly duckling... I was just wondering if, as GTK2 support is being
added, the change into the swan can start.
Actually I am quite happy with the interface too; nevertheles... Ah,
how I wish I knew the art of computer-art...

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guest · 2005-04-20 00:17

I've compiled Lazarus with GTK2 and it looks much better. Here it is
with GTK1:

http://www.urbanaustralia.org/cragwolf/gtk1laz.png

And here it is with GTK2:

http://www.urbanaustralia.org/cragwolf/gtk2laz.png

In particular, the text rendering in GTK2 is much better. And it's
nice to have a GUI consistent with all my other apps. But like
Lightning said, the Lazarus+GTK2 combination is still quite unstable.

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Marc · 2005-04-20 12:25

I think it also depends a bit on what theme you use. In my case the
differences are not that big.

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Anonymous · 2005-04-20 22:49

What theme do you use? Can you show me screenshots of GTK1 version and
GTK2 version? Email them to me if you like: cragwolf AT yahoo DOT com