2026-01-22 14:13 UTC
@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems Maybe @mirkobrombin@mastodon.social and I are misattributing GNOME’s vision for its ecosystem to its vision for the shell.
Naturally the shell can’t be going LibAdwaita-only, as (looking from the outside in) I would figure many shell elements, like widgets/the dock/etc, are just using GTK4—not to mention non-LibAdwaita apps still run on it. The ecosystem is what seems to be going LibAdwaita-only, both in GNOME shell, and elsewhere. I figure?
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems 2026-01-22 15:11
@moshimotsu@floss.social ah, that clarifies it, thanks :) Just a small correction: Shell does not use GTK; it uses another toolkit called "Shell Toolkit" - see https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gnome-shell/st/ As far as I remember, the main reason for that is because GTK is an application toolkit, not a desktop toolkit. The core GTK developers have actively discouraged against using GTK for desktops/shells, and things will only get exponentially more complicated once porting is involved (for example, from GTK3 to GTK4). @mirkobrombin@mastodon.social