The most recent bit of news I've read about GTK# 3: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/Towards-GTK-3-0-tp4650597.html
Daniel Hughes wrote > > GTK 3 was released 10 Feb 2011. That's a long time ago. > > During that time .net bindings have failed to eventuate. Information on > what has been happening has been very hard to find, despite a large number > of .net applications on linux using these bindings. > > As the author of an opensource application dependent on these bindings I > find this lack of information very concerning. And I'm starting to ask > myself questions like, Am I now dependent of a dead or dieing library? > > Banshee was removed from the default ubuntu install, officially because of > lack of GTK 3 support. > > I have the following questions: > > Where is the source code for GTK 3 support? > As far as I can establish the GTK sharp code is hosted here: > https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp<https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp/branches> > However there is no branch in there labelled as GTK3 > > Who supports GTK sharp? > If it is community maintained, who are the main contributors? > > Is there a projected or planned release date for GTK 3 support? > Developers dependent on GTK sharp need this information in order to plan > the future of there applications. > > If GTK sharp is really dying then application developers dependent on it > need to know, so they can either contribute to it or move there > applications on to something else. > > If the bindings are struggling, how come there has been no call > for contributors, or at least transparent information about what is going > on. Rather then the current back whole of information. > > Recently ubuntu held an app competition, it was hugely successful and > while > it was on people where asking questions like this: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/154373/use-primary-toolbar-with-mono > And all we could do was advice that they use another language. > > If we lose GTK# bindings where does that leave mono on desktop linux? We > have no QT bindings, no clutter bindings and no GTK# 3 bindings. in sort > we > have no bindings available (by that I mean packaged in debian or similar) > for the latest version of any native linux GUI tool kit. > > I'm going to say this again, mono developers cannot use the latest version > of any native linux GUI tool kit. > > Now maybe the GTK# bindings are alive and well and are about to issue a > release. However if that is true then the developers have a lot of room > for > improvement with there communications. > > Sincerely, > Daniel Hughes > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > -- View this message in context: http://mono.1490590.n4.nabble.com/GTKsharp-3-tp4656569p4656570.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
