GTK+ 3

[Mike Massonnet]

Hello,

2011/10/14 dE . <de.techno at gmail.com>:
> Hi.
>
> Hello devs, great job with the DE. I'd been personally used the DE for a
> year and now I'm thinking of replacing Gnome with it for deployment.
>
> First I'd like to write what I think people think about xfce after Gnome 3
> arrived. People don't see Xfce as a light weight DE anymore, they see it as
> a mainstream DE, a replacement of Gnome 2 which I think has started to
> deprecate (someday it will); the lightweight section has been replaced with
> lxde; Even Linus announced, he's quitting Gnome in favor of Xfce.
>
> So I suggest the Xfce project should change it's goal towards being a
> lightweight DE to a mainstream DE -- i.e. more feature rich but it's main
> objective should be  being user friendly and retaining the classic desktop
> to avoid migration cost and retraining. At this time, this's what people
> expect from Xfce. Around release of Gnome 3, searches for xfce has been
> increasing -
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=xfce
>
> People searching for gnome and xfce together means they're trying to migrate
> -
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=xfce+gnome&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
> <http://www.google.com/trends?q=xfce+gnome&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all>
>
> It'll continue to increase but only if xfce does what people expect it to do
> -- be the mainstream.
>
> My main question was -- what about GTK 3 migration? It has to be done
> someday.

http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.10/roadmap#about_gtk_30_and_compilation_with_gseal

Regards
-- 
Mike