Hi everyone, So I think it would be a really good idea to go for gtk3 in oneiric: - it allows us to focus on one ui rather than having to work on gtk2 as well (also avoids all that gobject vs GObject stuff of the last few days) - there were many changes between gtk2 and gtk3 and gtk3.1 which generally took quite a while to figure out how to do things the new way - as time has gone on generally more and more things have started working, and once you have figured out how they worked, they work solidly until the api changes again - so it should be quite safe for oneiric - the fixes we have been making recently have generally been smaller fixes rather than larger fixes - in the sense of some of them have been fixing larger things, but it's not as if we have been rewriting large chunks of code to fix bugs - it's new and sparkly and shiny :)
Things to keep in mind are amongst others: - a11y will presumably need fixing - rtl seems to work fairly nicely, could probably use a check every now and then - custom lists need reimplementing (again.. ;)) - although s-c-gtk3 has been in the archives for a while, we haven't been getting any apport bugs for it - in general the apport bugs are smallish fixes, so that should be ok though, but presumably there will be quite a few of them - performance isn't stunning (ie loading and switching panes)- having said that, it isn't significantly slow either, so that's something we can work on next cycle with a lot of help from the new db backend (if I manage to finish it nicely) - I'm not sure what the plan is for oneconf atm - there is an interface implemented against s-c-gtk2, but that hasn't had any testing as there isn't a server yet (afaik?), so I'm not sure whether that's something that needs to be rewritten for gtk3 or if that's a 'next cycle' thing, again :/ - I'm not sure what the status is of the exhibits is either, so that may still need a bit of work - details view needs theming, and it would be nice to make the theming of the lobby vs lists vs details slightly more consistent, ie atm it's kind of orange semi-busy vs white minimalistic vs greyscale So although there is still a lot to do for the gtk3 interface, I think we will be able to solve the vast majority of the remaining issues within the next month and look forward to changing to the gtk3 interface and discontinuing the gtk2 one. Cheers, Peter
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