Gtk3 for Xfce 4.12?

[Nick Schermer]

On 2012-05-04 11:50, Harald Judt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 04.05.2012 10:56, schrieb Nick Schermer:
>> On 2012-05-04 10:22, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it is safe to conclude that we'll go for Gtk3 with 4.12?
>>>
>>> That's the only sensible option imho.
>>
>> I agree, but then we should, while porting to gtk3 in a branch, keep 
>> the
>> new features in master to an absolute minimum until the gtk3 
>> branches
>> are merged.
>>
>> Once all of Xfce core is ported to gtk3 and merged in master we can
>> start focusing on the goodies an new features.
>>
>> Regarding the version, gtk 3.2 seems most practical (with glib 
>> 2.30).
>>
>> Nick
>
> I'm merely curious and interested in the decision-making process
> between the conflicting priorities of stability and being up-to-date:
> Thinking about the version currently available (3.4 here on my box)
> and the time scope (well, what's the time scope actually, there are
> many projects concerned?), what's the reason you would prefer to go
> with 3.2? Is 3.4 too unstable and do you consider it unlikely 3.4 
> will
> stabilize until the transition is complete, or are there other
> reasons?

Debian wheezy will have libgtk-3 3.2.3 for example and nothing special 
we require is part of 3.4.x.

Nick