Re: GNOME 3.0 in March 2011

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Le 29/07/10 13:50, Steve Frécinaux a écrit :
> On 07/29/2010 01:06 PM, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > > Speaking about my modules, I will not accept any changes to make them
> > > work with GTK+ 2.x again, nor would I want people to waste their times
> > > doing that.
> >
> > Why? As I understand, GTK3's only advantage is to have GtkApplication,
> > which is being backported to 2.22, right? So I don't see why you can't
> > make a --enable-gtk3 switch in your modules. Empathy is doing that from
> > the beginning, and it works fine.
>
> This is not so easy for some modules. Especially, those who rely on
> bindings and have been working toward gobject-introspection support (as
> gedit, totem and vinagre did, by supporting libpeas) must deal with the
> fact that those new bindings (or at least, pygobject's g-i support,
> which was the concern in gedit's case) won't see a 2.32 release.
>
> > > The 2.32 story is inexistent: "Hey, you have a couple of weeks to
> > > release something that you didn't plan for, and that didn't exist".
> >
> > If I understood, the story for 2.32 is the same than what we planned to
> > be 3.0 so far. Except:
> > 1) modules should release with the version '2.32' instead of '3.0'.
> > 2) gnome-shell won't be part of that release
> > 3) modules must build with GTK 2.22, with extra bonus if they also build
> > with 3.0.
> > 4) did I forgot something else?
>
> - pygobject with g-i support won't be part of that release

Right, that's indeed a bigger issue I didn't though about.

> - dconf won't be part of that release

Really? So what will happens for apps that are already ported to 
GSettings, like Empathy?

Regards,
Xavier Claessens.