On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:12:30 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> Does roxterm-gtk3 have any functionality -gtk2 doesn't have? Unlike > QT/GTK, there isn't a big difference there and I quite fail to see > the reason to have both. It's a library rather than support for a > whole environment, you need to upgrade at some time but I guess it > will be half a decade before anyone says a word about removing gtk2. It does have a little advantage of a resize grip under the scrollbar - it can be quite hard to grab skinny window borders sometimes, especially with a touchpad. But mainly I just like everything to be modern and want to make sure the GTK3 version gets well-proven. > Thus, if there's a bug but no goodies, you could stick with gtk2 for > now. And there's a lot of time before wheezy freezes, so there's a > fat chance the bug will be fixed, saving us two transitions (roxterm > -> roxterm-gtk*, roxterm-gtk* -> roxterm). I wouldn't be surprised if #632403 outlives Wheezy's testing phase. I'm thinking of keeping both versions in temrs of years rather than months anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110829131800.10d18492@junior
