On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:12 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote: > 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. >
As discovered with enabling cairo's GL backend in bug #725434¹, if a lot of apps pick up dependencies on clutter it will have a non-trivial impact on memory usage on the nvidia binary drivers. Not much that we can do about it, but it's another thing to consider. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/725434
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