Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 18:36 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Le 10/06/10 13:27, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> > On 10 June 2010 12:24, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net>  wrote:
> >> This requires module maintainers to port their modules now (if you don't
> >> want an angry release-team mob soon in front of your house).
> >
> > So, should we be requesting gtk3>= 2.90 in configure.ac now? At least
> > for Fedora rawhide the lack of gtk-engines makes all the gtk3-using
> > application look fugly.
> 
> To make Empathy build with gtk3 we need:
> 
>   - libcanberra-gtk-3
>   - libchamplain-gtk-3
>   - libclutter-gtk-3

libclutter-gtk 1.0 will only support gtk+ 3.0 - and leave gtk+ 2.0
support to the 0.10 series.

>   - libunique-3 (or drop gtk2 compatibility and use GtkApplication)

with my libunique maintainer hat on, I strongly suggest people to
migrate to gtk+ 3.0 and GtkApplication. I'm making sure the feature set
is equivalent, and will write a unique-to-gtk porting guide to be
included in gtk+'s API reference.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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