GTK+3 advisiblity for F14?

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Sun Aug 1 21:28:32 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:55 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 16:46 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi, folks. Just a question - since GNOME 3 is being delayed and won't
> >> > ship in F14, does it make sense to have a few apps (but not many) ported
> >> > to GTK+ 3 for F14? I can see it causing more trouble along the lines of
> >> > the gnome-python2-desktop package. Would it be better to move them back
> >> > to GTK+ 2 and postpone porting to GTK+ 3 until F15? What's the plan in
> >> > general for backing off from 2.90.x versions of GNOME bits? Thanks!
> >>
> >> With the disabling of gnome-python2-evince the sugar team has an issue
> >> with our sugar-read package which depends on it.
> >
> > Yeah, I noticed that, but I didn't see any good option to avoid it; if
> > we don't rebuild g-p2-d and disable evince, it won't work *at all*,
> > since it'll still be built against py2.6 :/
> 
> I can cope in the short term. As long as its fixed eventually before release!

I don't think you'll see a fixed version for F14. Somebody is going to
have to bite the bullet and port the application as it should be.

Not knowing the details, I'm afraid I can't give a more precise help,
but whether it's broken now or in 6 months, somebody will have to do the
work...



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