Wayland and Xfce

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Andrzej wrote:

> A bigger question is what to do with Gtk4. It has a larger and more
> immediate impact on the project than Wayland. Gtk is becoming unusable to
> 3rd-party (non-Gnome) projects and the trend is accelerating. We could,
> just like we have done it with Gtk2->3 transition, wait a few years and
> hope Gtk4 will mature to something more stable and less tied to Gnome
> (unlikely to happen this time). IMO a better approach would be to come
> together with Mate and Cinnamon developers and co-maintain Gtk3. In a
> medium/long term that would require less work than porting all of Xfce4 to
> new Gtk versions and dealing with incompatibilities and removed features.

Andrzej,

>From my perspective using Xfce from version 1.0 is to stick with what works.
For example, your suggestion of collaboration with other DE developers to
maintain GTK3 makes sense. If the GTK project becomes less generally useful
to non-Gnome projects, let it go its own way. Unless something in GTK3
breaks, stick with it.

Rich