Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0

[Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>]

Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
[..]
> Say, this Gtk-3.0 idea sucks. It brings nothing to application
> developers, yet application developers will be effectively forced
> to migrate to avoid problems. You are doing a disservice to
> application developers with this. It's a road to 4.0? Give me
> a break, canvas can be done now, and Undo in text widget doesn't
> need disabled deprecated API either. Thing is, nobody wants to
> do boring stuff, everybody wants to do exciting new stuff. Like
> writing a new programming language or mangling structure member
> names.
> Now what, do I get kicked out off the list? (Well, you can't
> do that)

Right, 3.0 will bring very little, if nothing to developers in short term.

As it has been brought up on this list many times. There are really no 
alternatives to making this change in process. We have to do this, or Gtk+ 
will die slowly and become irrelevant.

Some major features discussed are not depending on the 3.0 release to be 
done. But Canvas is one of them. You might want to do an attempt to 
violently push in a canvas into Gtk sure, but what we're really aiming at is
something Clutter like which would give you proper integration. And that 
cannot be solved without breaking all widgets in various interesting ways.

You just need to remember, nobody is forcing you to use Gtk+ 3.0 or even 
Gtk+ at all.

Johan