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Am I crazy to think Gtk4 is now a viable cross-platform alternative to Qt?

The Gtk devs have at least given the impression that they want to support other platforms (for example, this talk: youtube.com/watch?v=FB2Y2Wk6FKE or this post: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/is-gtk-4-cross-platform/6144/2). And getting it up and running on Windows with MSYS was pretty easy. It also uses GPU-accelerated rendering if available.

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Yes, you are crazy. Gtk+ has always been a joke compared to Qt, moreso Gtk4 vs Qt6.

It's getting worse, not better. They can't even get font rendering right.

Yes, Gtk is a joke in feature parity.

I've been thinking the same. Also, with libadwaita, it looks quite good by default, and the design is more or less the same as Windows 11 or macOS.

> Am I crazy to think Gtk4 is now a viable cross-platform alternative to Qt?

Dream solution is having a nix flake setup with correct compiler selection and switches for Windows/Linux/Mac and Android.

Is accessibility mature across platforms? If not, then nope.

Accessibility is the hill virtually every FOSS UI cross-platform toolkit dies on.

So you're not even going to do enough homework to see if you've got anything to be upset about here? You're just going to shout your requirements into the wind?

As far as I can tell, GTK 4 is still only accessible on free Unixes, via AT-SPI. There doesn't seem to be any progress in making it accessible on Windows or Mac.

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