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Marketing Gtk+
Alberto Ruiz · GUADEC 2009 Marketing Gtk+
Marketing:
Understanding Choice
Alberto Ruiz · GUADEC 2009 Marketing Gtk+
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Core assets
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Consistent and Stable API
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Core assets
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Large Binding Set
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Core assets
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Cross platform!
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Core assets
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New brand!
(not just logo)
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We're quite sexy, don't we?
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We eventually went for Qt for its documentation quality, consistent API and Windows support
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VLC
If I had to make the decision today, I would use Gtk+ for an application that is Linux-focused, not for anything cross-platform.
Justin Karneges, PSI
Some outsiders' quotes
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Common arguments against Gtk+
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- C Sucks
- Bindings are just independent projects
- Gtk is ugly
- All themes look the same
- Ugly on Win32
- No native Mac port
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But if we agree we are sexy...
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... what's wrong with us then?
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Gtk+ 2.0 Tutorial
- Most obvious choice for beginners
- Not suitable to learn to write apps
- Code snippets not readable
- Rather Gtk Widget Manual
- Bad inspiration for bindings docs
(gtkmm docs for the win)
- Assumes a bash like environment
Documentation
The Tutorial
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Documentation
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- Great tool btw! (kudos to fpeters)
- Plain list of ALL modules
- Order doesn't match relevance
- See mobile.gnome.org
Reference manuals: library.gnome.org
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... Bindings
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Bindings
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Unify the brand and websites of certified bindings
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Distribution
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Getting Gtk+ into the hand of developers, sysadmins and users
- Linux, OpenSolaris and BSD are doing fine
- No official installers on Windows or Mac (yet)
- Bad defaults
- Third party apps and binding are hard
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The PyGTK All-in-One story
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Distribution
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Gtk+ as a native SDK
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Conclusions
Alberto Ruiz · GUADEC 2009 Marketing Gtk+
- Really bad PR in the past
- Documentation needs love
- Cross platform support is essential
- No clear path to redistribute apps
- Gtk+ as a monolithic SDK
- Big audience out there waiting for it
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Thank you!
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