On 2 December 2010 19:15, Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 19:04 +0000, Rob Bradford wrote: >> On 1 December 2010 21:29, Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > Metacity is an important component of GNOME 3 as the window manager in >> > fallback mode. There's a couple of major things that need doing to make >> > it work in the GNOME 3 stack that I wanted to bring up here. Both of >> > them already have patches but we need to figure out exactly we want >> > to do. >> >> > Port to GTK+ 3.0 >> > ================ >> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622285 >> > >> >> > - We could support dual building. This is tricky, but there exist >> > patches developed for Mutter to do this that could be ported >> > over. (Benjamin Otte spent quite a bit of time working on this, >> > and then a week or so after the changes landed, we realized there was >> > nobody still building Mutter against GTK+ 2, so it was pointless >> > to carry the complexity.) >> >> There are various MeeGo projects at Intel where mutter is serious >> player; we'd like to move away from our "fork" to the GNOME version so >> Benjamin's work is certainly appreciated since despite trying hard I >> don't think we'll get GTK3 into the distribution in time for 1.2 >> (release date scheduled for April.) > > Mutter was already switched over to be GTK+ 3.0-only a while ago (after > consultation with you guys.) If there was a strong need, we could revert > that out but it would be far from the first choice. >
Ah. I was under that impression too ... so I was surprised to see you mention 2+3 support. Cheerio, Rob _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list