GTK+ 3

[dE .]

On 10/14/11 22:59, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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
Thanks for the info.