Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make gtk3 default (over gtk2)?
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:21:06 -0700
On 7/23/13 6:50 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:20:51AM -0400, Evan Huus wrote:
>> We discussed briefly at Sharkfest, and the hope then was that the Qt
>> version would be default for the next stable release (even if that
>> took slightly longer than usual to release).
>>
>> Perhaps the default should become the Qt version instead?
> 
> As of now the qt version is unuseable. That may change but right now
> gtk2 is the default and most stable, the there is gtk3 which is hopefully
> close to gtk2 and qt is a toy right now. While I definitely prefer the
> Qt-look, I think getting qtshark on par with the gtk versions is very
> optimistic.
> So let me rephrase that: Let us make gtk3 the default for now, until it
> will be superseeded by qtshark ;-)

I don't have a problem with making GTK3 the default over GTK2, but given
that:

- I plan on making Qt the default for OS X and Windows in the next major
release, and

- I'm willing to delay the next release until the Qt port morphs from
"toy" to "useful" and "feature complete"

any time spent on GTK at this point is probably time wasted.