Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Mar 2008 18:11 UTC, submitted by Pfeifer
"On the 2008 GTK+ Hackfest in Berlin, Imendio's GTK+ hackers presented their vision of GTK+'s future and the reasons why they think that GTK+ has to make a step forward, embrace change and break ABI compatibility. Other GTK+ developers have also voiced their opinions, listing parts of GTK+ that need serious love, but state that they don't require breakage. Whether or not these are the things that will mark the road to GTK+ 3.0, almost all of them need attention. And give hints to the shape of things to come."
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2005-07-06
While GTK+ is "just a GUI toolkit", there are a number of other G* libraries (and best of breed stuff like libxml) that address your concerns, since they're based on the same cross-platfrom mase libraries as GTK+. If you don't feel like getting your hands dirty with C, Vala is a great meta-compiler for GObject (and GObject derived libaries) that has a C#-like syntax.
I would encourage you to learn both GTK+ and QT, however. The relative pros and cons of each will better inform your development decisions in the future. Python is a great way to experiment with both, since it has a relatively low barrier to entry.