new icon theme implementation?

edscott edscott at prodigy.net.mx
Tue Jul 20 01:32:51 CEST 2004


El lun, 19-07-2004 a las 16:58, Don Christensen escribió:
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> ...
> >> here's my list of problems:
> >>
> >> 1) no gtk 2.2 implementation, and my current icon finder for 2.2 
> >> royally sucks and needs to be rewritten anyway.
> > 
> > I don't think this is a big problem. Most people will have upgraded to 2.4.
> 
> I would like to respectfully disagree with this opinion.  It would
> cause me some not insignificant amount of pain to upgrade to 2.4
> any time in the near future.  I also use multi-head, so keeping up
> with the latest CVS HEAD is important to me, at least until the 4.2
> release and probably beyond that.
> 
> On the other hand, if this only affects the icon finder, then I am
> not too concerned.  It's not something I use often enough to care
> strongly about (as long as "royally sucks" can be loosely translated
> as "it pretty much works").
> 
> I am mostly concerned about the attitude I see expressed here from
> time to time that maybe 2.2 isn't worth supporting any more.  I
> understand that it's a pain from a development perspective, but such
> is the world we live in.  Count this as a vote from at least one
> user who needs gtk+ 2.2 support.

Don't worry, somewhere in the archives you can find that Olivier
commented on this issue: the target for Xfce-4.2 is gtk-2.2. Xfce-4.2
will probably not get Olivier's release clearance unless gtk-2.2 ok.

Edscott




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