GTK+ target version [WAS Re: new dev branch stuff]

[Jeff Franks]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

>
> Certainly. The counter argument is that we can still target the same 
> big distribution(s) as GNOME.
>
> Another argument could be that because of the relatively long period 
> between major releases, if we target a conservative gtk version then 
> at the end of the cycle for an Xfce branch that will be quite old.
>
> Anyway, I can certainly live with using 2.4. Our biggest problem may 
> actually be that gtk tends to subtly change behaviour of widgets 
> between 2.x and 2.(x+2).
>
>  


And when they do the GNOME desktop stops working properly. I remmber 
this happening between 2.0 -> 2.2 and 2.2 -> 2.4.

Jeff