On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Derek Atkins wrote: > Christian Stimming <stimm...@tuhh.de> writes: > > Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: > >> I quickly verified on distrowatch as well. None of the distributions we > >> "support" (Ubuntu, openSuse, Fedora,...) still has support for 2.6. All > >> of them abandoned 2.6 somewhere in 2005. This means > >> a) it is already hard for us to test the GnuCash dialogs actually > >> running in a gtk+2.6 environment > >> b) someone that is still running a gtk+2.6 based distribution shows a > >> rather conservative attitude towards software updates, so I would doubt > >> this person would be interested in migrating to GnuCash 2.4.x. Remember > >> that when gtk+2.6 was actual, GnuCash was still 1.8.x ! > > > > Agreed to both points. Thanks for looking up the distros. Indeed the > > question whether we can actually test the gtk 2.6 version is critical > > here, so I agree with your decision. > > Works for me. Looks like EL5 has Gtk 2.10, so I think it's safe to > use that if you don't want to stick to 2.8. > For now I don't mind 2.8. As stated before, we will probably have to make a jump to at least 2.12 on trunk after 2.4 has branched to deal with the Gnome deprecations. But that's not something that concerns us right now.
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