Gtk 4.0 is not Gtk 4

[Ali Abdallah]

Hello everyone,

Maybe you have heard already about Gtk 4.0 plan and versioning 
convention. Xfce depends on Gtk, and whatever the gtk guys do to the 
toolkit will have a big impact on xfce. The versioning convention by 
itself it not a big deal (a part that it has no sense at all to change 
the versioning convention that everybody is able to interpret), what 
worries me more is the rapid API/ABI breakages rate. It is true that 
Xfce port to Gtk3 did not happen yet, but I think it is sound to discuss 
the gtk future plans here, and to share opinions.

My overall feeling these days is that I don't trust those guys anymore, 
and I fell myself demotivated to write gtk code that the gtk devs will 
make obsolete in a second, with continuous breakage even between minor 
releases...

What do you think?

Ali