The future of Xfce (or beating the Gtk3 horse to death)

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Nick Schermer wrote:

> On 2013-03-18 20:54, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> So if Gtk3 indeed evolves to become incompatible with Xfce by having
>> hitherto standard functionality removed, what would Xfce do? Stick
>> with Gtk2, as remotely likely as it seems right now? Radically change
>> direction and switch to Enlightenment (
>> http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/efl ), as Auke once
>> suggested and especially since Enlightenment seems more compatible
>> with the Xfce philosophy than Gtk3 given the direction in which the
>> latter is currently heading?
>
> Porting is not a real option, it maybe sound like that way but it would mean 
> rewriting Xfce entirely. So bad idea.
>
> There is nothing wrong with Gtk3, but you have to be patient.

Glad to hear it! I agree. I'm a refugee from gnome but am 
happy with Gtk (2 or 3), modulo the theming issues with 
version 3 that you mention.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC