Gtk3 port: xfce5 - [Was: Xfce 4.10 release situation]

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 11:22:14 CET 2011


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:59:55 +0100
> Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
>
>> > I'm all for releasing something good in March and making Gtk3 the
>> > main (the only?) feature of a 4.12 release.
>>
>> Completely unrelated, but if the bump from xfce 2 -> 3 was the port of
>> xforms to gtk1, and the bump from 3 -> 4 was the port to gtk2,
>> shouldn't we consider post 4.10 to be called xfce 5.0?
>
> No. This will just scare people off and make them think we are going
> for a big change (like GNOME 2 -> 3) which we really aren't. We're just
> switching to another version of a dependency, that's all.

Not to mention the (lib)?xfce4* renames..

Nick


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