----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrey Loskutov" <[email protected]> > To: "Cross project issues" <[email protected]>, > "Aleksandar Kurtakov" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:11:53 PM > Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions supported by > SWT or SWT call for help > > 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.
Options are endless. But let's try to limit the discussion towards Mars and Mars+1 for now. In this timeframe I don't think a new option will pop up and I'm trying to solve our daily issues first so we can try to look a bit further. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team > > > Am 8. Oktober 2014 16:44:30 OESZ, schrieb Aleksandar Kurtakov > <[email protected]>: > >----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Mat Booth" <[email protected]> > >> To: "Cross project issues" <[email protected]> > >> 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" <[email protected]> > >> > To: [email protected] > >> > 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 > _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list [email protected] To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
