On 04/07/2011 05:59 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and > GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions", I see > the following particular challenges: > > * Review our patches, and be rather aggressive about removing those > which are intrusive and which we have carried for ages without > upstream acceptance. Of course there are also still patches which > we haven't even proposed upstream, these should be discussed in > bugzilla.gnome.org. > > * Port pygtk2 apps to PyGI with GTK3. The biggest ones are > ubiquity and software-center, but there is also quite a long tail > of smaller upstream software. > > * Discuss GTK3 theming with UX/design. Our current murrine based > Humanity theme doesn't work with GTK3. > > I expect that this will bind a lot of developer capacity next cycle, > but at the same time it's very important that we do this to not lose > track with GNOME. > > Martin One issue we need to tackle is the use of clutter. Applications are moving towards using clutter (e.g. cheese) and my experience with clutter has been: - Requires good 3D support - Has never seemed to work well for me...
We need to work out early if we can have a hard dependency on clutter or not, and what happens if you can't run clutter applications. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
