Bazaar Explorer and GTK (was: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-gtk 0.99.0)

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Sat Aug 14 03:06:51 BST 2010


On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 11:48 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:
> 
> > Initially that was true. I'm not sure whether it's still the case and
> > would also doubt that anybody is actually using that particular
> > combination. QBzr is well ahead of bzr-gtk these days.
> >
> > The main thing bzr-gtk provides that QBzr doesn't as far as I'm aware
> > is tighter integration into the GNOME desktop and a native toolkit.
> > Neither of these is an advantage when using bzr-gtk inside of
> > bzr-explorer.
> Yes, those advantages are what I'm seeking. I like what I read about
> Bazaar Explorer, but I would much prefer it to be well-integrated with
> the GNOME desktop and use native GTK widgets.

> Would the developers of Bazaar Explorer please comment on this aspect?
> Was it ever the case that it provided the above advantages? How far has
> it diverged since then?
bzr explorer uses Qt itself; it's always been an independent desktop
app, that has never been different so I doubt it's diverged. Are you
asking whether there are plans to convert it to GTK+ ?

Cheers,

Jelmer



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