Re: Plans for GTK+ in the next cycle

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 01:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I've meant to write this mail for a while. Now that 2.16 is released,
> it is really overdue. Here are my thoughts on the next GTK+ cycle. I
> think we should aim to release 2.18 around the next Guadec (this was
> the original plan for 2.16, before I decided to shorten it and do a
> release in sync with Gnome 2.26).
> 
> Here is a short list of things that I consider as candidates for the next cycle:
> 
> - Alex' client-side windows work
> 
> - Making flippable widgets non-abstract
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553573)
> 
> - A message area widget (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555344)
> 
> Other things are of course possible, depending on people signing up to
> do the necessary work.

Converting the default theme engine to use cairo would help the move
towards a cairo based theme engine API. It would also be relatively
unintrusive. I have some patches in my git repository on github, which
would probably be fairly trivial to merge once GTK+ has switched to git.

I've filed a bug for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576988

Regards,

Thomas