Re: Would there be a drawback of using the same graphical toolkit on every platform?

[tomas]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 06:53:45PM +0100, Arthur Miller wrote:

[...]

> I opposed to the rhetorics of Po who is blaming it on Gtk bugs and devs having
> their own ideas on input [...]

Now we're in blame territory. The "close X display thing" is actually a
long standing Gtk bug (around Gtk 2). X programs could always connect to
more than one display, and could close one or more of them. Gtk chose
to just crash the program when closing a display. This was acknowledged
as a bug, but never fixed.

Have a look here [1] for that long winded history.

Now you can describe calling this "a bug" as rhethoric, but to me, a
spade is a spade is a spade. Don't get me wrong: the Gtk people are
in their full right to WONTFIX this, of course.

Cheers

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715

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