Re: Gtk DirectFB backend (again...)

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 15:37 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 19:47 +0200, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
> 
> > Last week, I have seen that GTK+ 3.0 has drop the DirectFB backend
> > because no maintainer was carrying it (which I wasn't aware of). 
> 
> that's frankly odd, since the backend has been known to be broken since
> the 2.14 release, which happened two years ago.

And it was fixed by me during the 2.14 release cycle. Honestly I don't
have the time though to keep it working on a regular basis. That's why I
asked Lionel to step up as the maintainer of the backend.

That said, let's see how the work on the backend in Lionel's git
repository evolves...


Sven