Lazarus
Installation => General => Topic started by: pascal-rick on January 29, 2005, 08:18:03 pm
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Hello,
i will start to program some nice little apps with lazarus (btw, really GREAT work!). But, gtk1 is soo ugly.... can someone tell when it will be usable?
thx
patrick
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What distro do you have ? (I assume Debian or similar)
It looks just fine on a MDK 10 here.
Anyway GTK2 is in plans :)
Lazarus has already been compiled with GTK2 but it's too unstable to be used yet, be patient ;)
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Hmmm... BTW, are there any changes in the Lazarus' GUI planned? :) IMHO IDE as good as Laz deserves a better GUI ;)
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mikiwoz, what do you have in mind ?
Most users seem to be happy with the current interface.
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Oh, well, you know... ;)
Just some minor polishing, changing the button images, and so on. Nothing important, really.
I have a friend, a Delphi freak (such as myself until I found Laz) who is just trying to find every stupid little disadvantage of Laz.
Well, everyone must agree, that compared to Delphi Laz is quite an ugly duckling... I was just wondering if, as GTK2 support is being added, the change into the swan can start. :)
Actually I am quite happy with the interface too; nevertheles... Ah, how I wish I knew the art of computer-art... ;)
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I've compiled Lazarus with GTK2 and it looks much better. Here it is with GTK1:
http://www.urbanaustralia.org/cragwolf/gtk1laz.png
And here it is with GTK2:
http://www.urbanaustralia.org/cragwolf/gtk2laz.png
In particular, the text rendering in GTK2 is much better. And it's nice to have a GUI consistent with all my other apps. But like Lightning said, the Lazarus+GTK2 combination is still quite unstable.
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I think it also depends a bit on what theme you use. In my case the differences are not that big.
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What theme do you use? Can you show me screenshots of GTK1 version and GTK2 version? Email them to me if you like: cragwolf AT yahoo DOT com