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		opencl on Aug 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust GUI ecosystem overview GIMP and Inkscape are still using the ancient GTK2, GTK3 is generally a lot nicer. i.e. Transmission uses GTK3 and looks like this[1] on OSX. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_(BitTorrent_clien...

glennpratt on Aug 23, 2019 [–]

Are you sure? I don't recall it using GTK3 on Mac.

> A native Mac OS X GUI application

> GTK+ and Qt GUI applications for Linux, BSD, etc.

https://github.com/transmission/transmission

opencl on Aug 23, 2019 | [–]

Yep, you're right. I forgot about that.

GTK3 in general looks a hell of a lot nicer than GTK2 but now I can't think of any GTK3 applications that actually run on OSX...

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