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calf-studio-gear / calf

Developers repository of Calf Studio Gear. Expect some issues when using it for production.
http://calf-studio-gear.org
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Are you plan switch to GTK3? #248

Open Vascom opened 4 years ago

Vascom commented 4 years ago

Are you plan switch to GTK3 or add it support as option?

GTK2 not require on many system. And it very strange when sound lv2 plugin require GUI GTK2 library.

unfa commented 4 years ago

I believe it's not good to use GTK in Plug-ins at all.

If a UI makeover is possible, I guess it'd be better to use something like Cairo, or another toolkit that would not collide with DAW libraries and would also allow to use Calf Plug-Ins on Windows and Mac.

Anyway - the amount of work required most likely means this will not happen.

trebmuh commented 4 years ago

As information, back in the days, a work have started on this front.

Vascom commented 4 years ago

I hope it will be done.

mxmilkiib commented 4 years ago

This would be related to https://github.com/calf-studio-gear/calf/issues/181

A better issue title could possibly be "Replacement UI toolkit?" or such?

See also https://github.com/lv2/lv2/wiki#avoid-gui-frameworks

dvzrv commented 2 years ago

Hi! I package calf on Arch Linux. As we are starting to phase out gtk2 from the official repositories we are starting to remove its use in the packages. Calf can be built without gtk2 UIs, but would then only offer very limited UIs, as provided by the host.

This is a possibility, but probably not a really nice outcome.