GTK2 Support?

[pascal-rick]

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

[Lightning]

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

[mikiwoz]

Hmmm... BTW, are there any changes in the Lazarus' GUI planned? IMHO IDE as good as Laz deserves a better GUI

[Lightning]

mikiwoz,  what do you have in mind ?
Most users seem to be happy with the current interface.

[mikiwoz]

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...

[guest]

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.

[Marc]

I think it also depends a bit on what theme you use. In my case the differences are not that big.

[Anonymous]

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