Gtk3 for Xfce 4.12?

Andrzej ndrwrdck at googlemail.com
Thu May 3 10:38:44 CEST 2012


On 03/05/12 16:21, Peter de Ridder wrote:
>
>> This, plus any new frameworks/libraries we may want to use are likely to be
>> Gtk3-only. I fully agree with this part, and I think this is the single
>> biggest, if not the only, reason for doing the port.
>
> In my opinion this is a good reason to port to Gtk3. As Nick noted is
> this applicable to our depends?

Just to clarify, I was thinking more of thinks like panel indicators or 
whatever Gnome or Ubuntu guys will throw at us later. At the moment that 
isn't a big deal, but if some of these ideas become very popular we will 
become stuck.

> I don't think we require to sync with Gtk releases, since the
> application api is stable. This far the theming only changed alot and
> this was solvable in the gtk.css (theme files).

Good to hear that. I have no problems with Gtk3, then.

Andrzej


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