> Significant experience in gtk / gtkmm, ideally some experience in GTK4.
I wonder how many people there are with those skills. 1k, 10k? I'd be surprised if the figure was in the neighborhood of 100k.
I wonder how many people there are with those skills. 1k, 10k? I'd be surprised if the figure was in the neighborhood of 100k.
Out of the pool of Gtk developers? That's basically saying "Have you done gtk and kept up to date?". It's not really the equivalent of the dreadful "5 years of experience in a JS framework that came out last October".
For a migration job, what else would you suggest as the initial requirements? Sounds okay, although they might have to go down if they find out that e.g. every gtk3 developer moved on to Qt, WinUI or Flutter...
(For generic, long-term positions I'm strictly against too specific requirements, by the way. Actual desktop UI experience would be great, though, even in our current sad state)
Being used more by linux doesn't change its nature, and plenty of stuff you never realized use it in many platforms.
I say this as someone using GTK and who was forced to contribute quite a lot of fixes for the macOS backend (in GTK2), because I was one of the few people using it in the way we do on macOS.
For context:
0: no restrictions/default
1: only send if base domain matches (i.e. news.ycombinator.com would only include the referrer for *.ycombinator.com links)
2: only send if entire domain matches (i.e. news.ycombinator.com would only include the referrer for news.ycombinator.com links)
Invoked for the tendency to do rewrites instead of maintaining and bug fixing, since rewrites are more "interesting".
I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers, but I have seen the 1.x -> 2.x rewrite before too so he's not wrong overall. If you want to read the original article search for "The CADT Model" - I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :)
edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described
Your browser probably just doesn’t send the referer header to protect your privacy.
IMO anyone who has not configured their browser not to send cross-domain Referer headers deserves whatever they get. There is no user benefit for this privacy leak and browsers should have trashed it decades ago.
We need a DE for legacy devices as XFCE's development is not a sure thing with further GTK+ releases tied to Gnome and Red Hat.
Yeah, though I think of “teenage” more as a mindset in this case.
Rewriting a whole big library, not easy either way.
Will I sound like too much of a grumpy user if I express dismay at yet another protracted migration?