“In this interview, Murray Cumming, the current maintainer of
gtkmm (formerly known as Gtk–), talks about me, why he thinks I
left gtkmm, and the advantages of gtkmm over Qt. Given that I
disagree with pretty much everything he says, I feel I should
answer.“Murray: (…)My guess is that Guillaume
never really got a handle on the gtkmm codebase and took the
opportunity to jump clear of something that daunted him.
(…)“I explained why I left gtkmm, and no, “the opportunity to jump
clear” wasn’t among the reasons. You are almost right on one thing
though. I indeed never really got a handle on the gtkmm internals,
because they were Karl’s realm, I had much less spare time to spend
on gtkmm than Karl, and most of all I wasn’t interested. My goal
was to have a toolkit which we could use for Rosegarden. So my main
activity with gtkmm was to wrap widgets…”
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Interview(May 23, 2002)
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