On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 10:20, FACORAT Fabrice wrote: > Le sam 06/07/2002 � 01:23, Adam Williamson a �crit : > > Just a quick question - are there any plans yet as to when Cooker is > > going to package gtk2 versions of mozilla, galeon and gaim? All can be > > compiled with gtk2 support right now, although it's very dicey with > > mozilla (and thus galeon) atm. Gaim is more mature, but still has a > > major bug (antialiasing is broken in chat windows). Just interested as > > to the schedule... (for gtk2 support in gaim you just compile with > > --enable-gtk2 IIRC, I think it works in current release version, though > > i'm using CVS). > > if mdksoft plan to sell 8.3 soon, they will not include apps with > partial/unstable support for gtk 2 > > nautilus 2 have some quiks, don't add more mess. It's the reputation of > mdksoft > > IMHO I think that these apps will be stable under gtk 2 after 8.3 and so > we will see them in 9.0 ( or 8.4 or whatever you want ). Now the > question is : > It's "annoying"/"disturbing" to see theses apps using gtk 1 them and > that they don't correspond to the reste of your desktop ( ok I know by > launching gnome apps under KDE you have the same behaviour ), but I > don't know, now I can understand people talking about standard look&feel > for the standards apps.
Sounds about right to me. Except maybe Gaim will be stable quicker, it's a smaller app. http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/mozilla/Gtk2_Mozilla_Estimates.html would be a good place to keep an eye on for gtk2 mozilla, I think. The second point is an irritating one, but can be got around with careful design. Choose matching gtk1 and gtk2 themes by default (I think this is already done quite well), and maybe even have a custom theme selector which lets you select window manager theme, gtk1 theme and gtk2 theme together? At the moment these are all split up, and it's not simple to set up gtk1 themes in gnome2. I think there are moves in this direction already with the idea of 'metathemes' popping up in some places (look at www.sunshineinabag.org, or www.lucidus.uklinux.net since I think their redirect is broken ATM), and if it was done well it could even maybe be rolled back into GNOME...though I guess they'll be planning something similar for GNOME 2.2 anyway. Oh well, just thoughts :) -- adamw
