Browser Development • Re: Linux Pale Moon with Qt toolkit

The biggest downside is it means anyone targeting GTK4 would likely have to target a specific desktop that uses it, since they'll likely be using libadwaita (GNOME), libgranite (ElementaryOS), libclassic (probably future MATE/Cinnamon), and whichever one you compile against... that's what your application looks like.

Well I'm still unclear on this one but if it's as you say then it would definitely lead to a huge fragmentation of the Linux community, and certain developers might simply give up rather than build X flavors of their app - one for each possible desktop.

In my mind I still hope that we just slightly misunderstand the concept, and that it's possible for an application built against a raw GTK4 - as you say - to simply "connect" to the GTK4 version on the target machine, embracing the style used to build that particular copy of the GTK4 toolkit for the respective desktop. That would definitely make sense for a smart design. But maybe I'm giving them GTK team too much credit...

I'm of half mind to try installing GTK4 here from Rob's backports and perform some test with the available apps. But I'm a little afraid not to bork this system now when it's so close to [my view of] perfection. Qt6 was already a gamble, and I passed - for now - on upgrading Qt5 from 5.9 to 5.15 which is also available from Rob's backports. I'll think about it.