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What are the benefits for Geany of porting it to GTK4?

The editor/IDE #Geany is still #GTK3 and the hampering factor was that the editing engine #scintilla wasn't ported to GTK4 but it exists now.
However, one of the main developers questions, if there are any benefits at all in porting Geany to GTK4:

"I wonder if anyone would find motivation for this. As said in #3675, in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4."

github.com/geany/geany/issues/…

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Screenshot showing: eht16 left a comment in geany bug #4460 I wonder if anyone would find motivation for this. As said in #3675, in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4.

Port Geany to GTK4

Port Geany to GTK4. As Scintilla is now ported to GTK4 (see https://mastodon.social/@bugaevc@floss.social/115507432930694449), it would be great if Geany would be ported to GTK4 as well bringing al...
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Monoka

@whitemice I also think that Geany is an excellent application. As fast and tabbed editor with powerful features, I don't see so many alternatives on Linux. Thus, it would be great if Geany would decide that it wants to do the shift to GTK4. Otherwise, it will become outdated and less relevant in the future.
Thanks, your responses about GTK4 benefits were already helpful. I will reference those in the Geany bugtracker.
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Monoka

I have just seen that the developer @eht16 of Geany is also here on Mastodon. Please see the discussion thread. We are elaborating on "What are the benefits for Geany of porting it to GTK4?" following your response to bug #4460 that "in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4"

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eht16

integration on Linux


probably means "integration in Gnome". Using other DMs feels rather less integrated. You might say that's the responsibility of the other DMs. Fine.
Users might judge differently.

if the current maintainer doesn’t want to spend their time


Just for clarification, we are not talking about "the maintainer" here, just my personal opinion about GTK4. Geany is maintained by a team of developers and I do not represent the team as a whole here.

@GerryT
I'd like to keep the discussion in github.com/geany/geany/discuss… as it is way more visible to Geany related developers and users than here. Thanks.

@whitemice @GTK @gnome


Geany 4.0, the GTK4 edition (and more) · geany geany · Discussion #3675

There are a number of probably big changes being examined or coming in the future. The point of this discussion is to record and discuss them. Blue sky thinking is encouraged, but implementability ...
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@eht16 To given an overview of the current state of #GTK4 adoption. Out of the active GTK open source projects 71% use GTK4, and 29% still use #GTK3 as of today (#GTK2 not counted). This is an increase of 9 percentage points since Nov 2024. This means that GTK4 will likely crack 90% of active #GTK projects in 2028 (and probably plateaus at such share).

Additionally, 90% of GTK4 projects use #libadwaita (#Gnome), and 6% of GTK3/GTK4 projects use #libgranite.

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#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #GTK3 #GTK4 #GTK2 #libgranite @Emmanuele Bassi @GNOME @GTK @Adam Williams @eht16
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