GTK is an abomination of a UI framework. You should be looking for another way to manage your UI entirely, not trying to keep up with the joneses, who will no doubt release something new in short order and set yet another hoop to jump through, without providing any benefit to you at all.
It's openly hostile to not consider the upgrade path of existing users, and make things so difficult that it requires huge lifts just to upgrade versions of something like a UI framework.
>> GTK is an abomination of a UI framework.
I respectfully disagree with that. I think it's a solid UI framework, but...
>> It's openly hostile to not consider the upgrade path of existing users, and make things so difficult that it requires huge lifts just to upgrade versions of something like a UI framework.
I completely agree with you on that. We barely use any UI widgets so you'd think the port would be easy enough. I went through most of the checklist for changes you can make while still using GTK3 in prep for 4. "Don't access event structure members directly, use accessor functions." OK I made that change which made the code a little more verbose. But then they changed a lot of the accessor functions going from 3 to 4. Like WTF? I'm just trying to create a menu but menus don't exist any more - you make them out of something else. Oh and they're not windows they are surfaces. Like why?
I hope with some of the big architectural changes out of the way they can stabilize and become a nice boring piece of infrastructure. The talk of regular API changes every 3-5 years has me concerned. There's no reason for that.