On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 02:07:50PM +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: > On 2015-07-29, 10:47 GMT, Michael Schwendt wrote: > >> As I have thought for some time, I think we should have a team to keep > >> packages and make migrations like gtk2 to gkt3, libgnome2, pyorbit, > >> gnome-python2, pyhton2 to python3 , qt3 etc etc > > > > Wishful thinking. Porting from gtk2 to gtk3 is non-trivial or not even > > feasible in all cases (without dropping some features/implementations). > > Some developers are unhappy with gtk3. Others switch to Qt. > > I would say that the transition from Gtk2 to Gtk3 was pretty > much a disaster especially in terms of the 3rd part software.
FWIW I found the port of Gtk3 pretty straightforward for my Entangle application and find it quite alot nicer to work with than Gtk2 in general, so has been a big plus overall. I would *not* suggest that Fedora maintainers do any such porting work though, as maintaining such a fork from upstream would be seriously painful. Leave any porting work to the upstream community to decide to do, or not. > * GIMP of all programs (original software for which Gtk was > created) is still Gtk2. The GTK3 port is on GIMP's roadmap for their 3.0 release series, but they need to get their port to gegl finished before that http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap > * Actually, I have hard time to imagine which large 3rd party > projects did switch from Gtk2 to Gtk3. As an alternative to random FUD, here's some actual data # dnf repoquery --whatrequires 'libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit)' ...plenty of significant apps/projects using Gtk3 there, not least of all evolution, totem, evince, gnumeric, ephinany, emacs Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
