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What makes gtk4 on it useful?
Better wayland support, better icons, and idk what else
Also better performance through GPU acceleration
So GTK3 doesn't have GPU acceleration?? Does Qt have it?
GTK3 did not. That’s a big reason 4 exists.
Hmm hmm idk why a new protocol(incompatibe with GTK3) is required for that feature
Well the core of a toolkits api is rendering… so when rendering is completely redesigned the api is going to change.
It seems that Qt5 and Qt6 have GPU acceleration in multiple areas, but I dont understand their landscape with QtWidgets etc.
Oh cool