On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Geert Janssens <[email protected]> writes: > >> Forgot to mention: Gtk3 was indeed not on the agenda for 2.6. 2.6 is >> only meant to be *ready* to be migrated. This means getting rid of all >> the deprecated gtk symbols. Other than the register this is done. So >> the register rewrite is actually important for this goal, whether we >> use the GtkTreeView approach or the libgnome->cairo route. > > Personnaly I'd rather see us move to Qt instead of Gtk3 when that > decision has to be made. My reasoning is that I think the Gtk > developers have lost sight of their target audience, and as a result > keep removing features that are vital. It's too much of a loose > firehose, and IMHO shouldn't be supported anymore. Indeed, for my next > desktop re-install I plan to move away from a Gnome desktop and over to > XFCE.. > > Note that this has nothing to do with the 2.6 release, but it's > something we should think about when contemplating a move to gtk3.
I agree completely, with the additional comment that we should consider wxWidgets as well. However, we should make that decision sooner rather than later: If we're going to drop Gtk, then we should be using C++ and Boost rather than GObject and GLib for backend work. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
