Re: Metacity towards GNOME 3.0

[Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>]

On 1 December 2010 21:29, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> Metacity is an important component of GNOME 3 as the window manager in
> fallback mode. There's a couple of major things that need doing to make
> it work in the GNOME 3 stack that I wanted to bring up here. Both of
> them already have patches but we need to figure out exactly we want
> to do.

> Port to GTK+ 3.0
> ================
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622285
>

>  - We could support dual building. This is tricky, but there exist
>   patches developed for Mutter to do this that could be ported
>   over. (Benjamin Otte spent quite a bit of time working on this,
>   and then a week or so after the changes landed, we realized there was
>   nobody still building Mutter against GTK+ 2, so it was pointless
>   to carry the complexity.)

There are various MeeGo projects at Intel where mutter is serious
player; we'd like to move away from our "fork" to the GNOME version so
Benjamin's work is certainly appreciated since despite trying hard I
don't think we'll get GTK3 into the distribution in time for 1.2
(release date scheduled for April.)

Cheerio,

Rob