moving thunar to gtk3

[Alexander Schwinn]

That's Great, thanks! I will have a look on the broken icons, etc.

Cheers, Alex

Am 15. April 2017 03:53:33 MESZ schrieb "André Miranda" <andre42m at gmail.com>:
>As we have discussed at #xfce-dev, I created a github fork 
>(github.com/andreldm/thunar), applied the changes from 
>rgcjonas/thunar-gtk3 on top of the current master and made two small 
>fixes to make it compile again. Taking a quick look, things are mostly 
>working, I could only spot broken icons when using Compact List and 
>Icons views. I think that the job now is to assess the regressions (and
>
>fix them) and handle the deprecations warnings (not the most urgent 
>task, but very welcome).
>
>So I propose to anyone that wishes to collaborate to fork my fork and 
>make pull requests (or ask me push rights if you will) then eventually 
>we should be able to get thunar in shape to merge with master @ 
>git.xfce.org.
>
>Cheers,
>Andre Miranda
>
>On 14-04-2017 17:23, Simon Steinbeiss wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> that's great!
>> Please note that Thunar isn't very stable as it is in Gtk2, mostly 
>> threading stuff as far as I can tell.
>>
>> There are various efforts which have been undertaken by different 
>> people, there is a fairly old but probably ok approach from Nick on 
>> git.xfce.org <http://git.xfce.org> and there are also two 
>> (unfinished?) ports on github. So the first job would be evaluating 
>> those efforts and merging them meaningfully.
>> Furthermore you'll face several design decisions, e.g. regarding 
>> custom widgetry or exo.
>>
>> Providing your work on github is a good start.
>>
>> You should definitely join the irc channel though, helps with getting
>
>> answers and hopefully guidance at times. Please be patient though, 
>> people aren't always around.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> Alex <acs82 at gmx.de <mailto:acs82 at gmx.de>> schrieb am Do., 13. Apr. 
>> 2017, 23:52:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     I would like to start work on moving thunar to gtk3. However I
>>     have some very basic questions:
>>
>>     I dont have an account for git.xfce.org <http://git.xfce.org>
>yet.
>>
>>     Should I get an account first to be able to generate a branch
>there?
>>
>>     Or is it as well fine for you if I fork & provide the result on
>>     e.g. github ?
>>
>>
>>     Regarding the right codebase:
>>
>>     Should I branch the master of git://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar ?
>>
>>     Or should I use some of the (real old) work in process repos as
>>     base, which are suggested here:
>>     https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/roadmap/thunar ?
>>
>>
>>     [Thunar] Gtk3 porting - preparation step
>>    
><https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2017-March/031867.html>/Vladimír
>>     Chren //
>>     --> looks like these patches are not merged into master yet ?
>>
>>     Thanks & Cheers,
>>     Alex/
>>
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