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

[edscott wilson garcia]

El dom, 30-01-2005 a las 00:40 +0000, Jeff Franks escribió:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> >Hi all
> >
> >On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:02 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>>1) what's our new gtk target for xfce 4.4?  gtk 2.4?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>If we plan for august, which was mentioned on IRC, then maybe we could aim for
> >>2.6 even?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I think targeting GTK+-2.6 is a bad idea.

ditto.


> >  
> >
> Xfce doesn't have to be a geek toy. The new features added to GTK+ 2.6 
> have long been present in KDE, and some in GNOME. A few of these 
> features were moved from the GNOME libraries into GTK+.  GtkIconView is 
> one,  it's a very useful widget and one that Xffm badly needs (I believe 
> an icon view for xffm is already being worked on). Trying to navigate a 
> huge filing system like Linux with a single expandable/collapsable file 
> tree is cumbersome (very OS/2-ish) and not very user friendly.  (Sorry, 
> no offence intended.)

Don't need 2.6 for the iconview. The latest cvs already has small and
fast implementation, gtk-2.2 compatible. Also, the treeview within gtk-2
is slow and buggy, with tons of extra bloat you cannot get rid of, so
for the next release the default will probably the faster iconview.  

> >
> Xfce has a lot going for it and deserves a wider audience. Xfce 4.2 got 
> some very good write-ups because of the improvments you guys made. I 
> think targeting GTK+ 2.6 would be a good for Xfce in the long run, 
> especially xffm. 

No offence here, but you could check out the current CVS development
status before making a claim like the above about xffm. 

About the release schedule, IMHO, each maintainer should set out and do
4.3.x releases of his/her code, so that come RC1 time, the last good
shape 4.3.x release can be used. It's all very well to suggest release
schedules, but if we do not all start participating in the release
process, I'm afraid we are looking not to August, but mid-2006.




regards,

Edscott


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edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org>