Hi Just my 10cents piece, as I'm afraid I'm not really involved in the decision.
As a new maintainer - about six month on nautilus-actions - I've already had to migrate from Gvfs to GIO, from libglade to GtkBuilder, and, obviously, soon from GConf to dconf. In GIO and in GtkBuilder, I had to suffer of regressions, whether some api didn't exist in the new product (mostly uri parsing in GIO), or bugs that were not fixed before the migration decision (GtkBuilder: the id is no more unique inside of a toplevel, not even fix today - see #579345). I'm not able to estimate how much the new products are better that the previous ones, but I, and I think other developpers too, would greatly appreciate if new products had at least same functionalities than the one they replace. Really, guys, developpers need a minimum of stability to be efficient. I don't even talk of advanced users that we ask to directly edit their GConf system because lot of applications have preferences only editable through GConf editor. All, we work to build a better free desktop. But migrating three times in six months without any visible gain is a pain. Regards Pierre PS: and sorry for my bad english - I do my best efforts ;-) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
