Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua>]

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 16:10 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
>
> > Am Montag, den 22.08.2005, 13:37 +0200 schrieb Rodrigo Moya:
> >
> > > there is no reason to force us to do GNOME 3.0, but since many GNOME
> > > libraries will be disappearing with Ridley, we might want to call it
> > > 3.0, so that we don't have to maintain the old libraries around.
> > >
> > > Also, as we deprecate most stuff in libgnome/libgnomeui, we might want
> > > to think about the role of those libraries. I would suggest we use them
> > > for having high-level desktop oriented things in one place, like, for
> > > instance, talking to the panel/window manager/file manager/etc,
> > > notifications, services (libgnomeservice), libegg, icon theme.
> > > Thus, as we reduce the number of generic libraries by getting them into
> > > GTK+, we also reduce the number of specific, high-level libraries, by
> > > putting them into libgnome/libgnomeui. Since we'll always need these
> > > high-level libraries, instead of killing libgnome*
> > > (http://live.gnome.org/LibgnomeMustDie), it might be much better to
> > > change its purpose.
> > >
> > > All those would be enough to justify a GNOME 3.0 :)
> >
> > Does this also mean that we can get rid of deprecated API like GtkTree,
> > GtkCList or GtkFileSelector?
>
>
>   Maybe just moving deprecated widgets to a separate library, like
> libgtk2.0-compat.la, would be a better solution?  We'd get well
> maintained applications to avoid linking to this library, while at the
> same time keeping it around for those apps that just need it and whose
> authors are stuburn enough to not want to update.
So let those apps depend on GTK+-2.x, like many depend on 1.2 now. 
Moving widgets to separate library will require some changes in related 
apps anyway.

	Olexiy