<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 February 2015 at 00:44, ikey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ikey@evolve-os.com" target="_blank">ikey@evolve-os.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">True. But those have always been evil anyway.<span class="im"><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>They're an absolute necessity for user-driven access control and for securing a bunch of other applications. UI embedding is used on Windows 8 (and OS X, I suspect) to provide custom widgets in file choosers, it's used by Android to serve ads without exposing parent apps' UIs, and it's got a massive potential for building permission UIs within apps. I don't remember anything of the internals of Plug/Socket and am generally not qualified to discuss that stuff, but I do hope there's a replacement coming.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="im"></span>My personal thoughts are to go forward with a complete port. If the<br>
future of XFCE is on GTK3, then why support GTK2 anymore.. ?<br>
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I can understand why a compat shim would be used in a dual-scenario,<br>
but I'm not entirely sure any API #ifdef's are wanted here. :)<br></blockquote><div><br>I would assume it'd be easier to just keep 4.12 in its own branch and backport high/critical/blocker fixes until installs of xfce4 (specifically 4) plummet. I believe that's what Andrzej meant?<br></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Steve Dodier-Lazaro<br>PhD Student<br>University College London<br>Free Software Developer<br>OpenPGP : 1B6B1670</div>
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