On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 17:18 +0200, Pierre Wieser wrote: > 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. > you are right, but this is not usual, it is just that you joined GNOME development in the middle of the GNOME 2.x to 3.x transition :) Once all these libs are settled down, things should go back to normal
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