BTW we at Advantest are still using RHEL 5.8, even because RHEL has crazy long 
support times :o) 

Limiting to GTK3 only and drop GTK2 ports for *new* Eclipse releases would be 
good idea but AFAK GTK3 SWT port is still problematic (I'm on *latest* Ubuntu 
and must turn it off). 

In general I would also prefer to have always *one* (smallest possible from 
latest GTK on major distros) SWT port for latest Eclipse release but that port 
must be 99% usable. 

I won't hijack the thread, but the best long term solution for SWT Linux ports 
and Eclipse UI toolkit in general would be to move away from SWT to Java FX or 
better Qt (I know Qt LGPL license is a showstopper, but this *is* technically 
viable alternative). Without the man power of IBM (which originally allowed SWT 
to be developped for so many different plattforms) SWT as we have it today has 
no feature. 


Am 8. Oktober 2014 16:44:30 OESZ, schrieb Aleksandar Kurtakov 
<akurt...@redhat.com>:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mat Booth" <mat.bo...@redhat.com>
>> To: "Cross project issues" <cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:27:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions
>supported by SWT       or SWT call for help
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Igor Fedorenko" <i...@ifedorenko.com>
>> > To: cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org
>> > Sent: Wednesday, 8 October, 2014 12:38:10 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions
>supported by
>> > SWT        or SWT call for help
>> > 
>> > What major distribution still stuck with GTK2? Aren't they all on
>GTK3
>> > already?
>> > 
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Igor
>> > 
>> 
>> RHEL 6/CentOS 6 only has GTK 2.20, IIRC


--
Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov

http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
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