and legacy software Re: pyorbit

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sex, 2015-07-31 at 02:34 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matěj Cepl wrote:
> > I take Gnumeric and Emacs, but all other ones are in-Gnome
> > projects, aren't they (at least having repository in
> > git.gnome.org)?
> 
> Gnumeric is part of GNOME Office, so it is also under the GNOME umbrella 
> these days.
> 
> The thing is that GTK+ 3 is becoming more and more useless outside of GNOME, 
> given their recent changes, e.g.:

 off topic. 


> * client-side window decorations are more or less required. They "fixed"
>   their non-CSD fallback support recently, but that only means that it draws
>   its custom title bar underneath the WM's.
> * discontinued support for theme engines, which means:
>   - theming is limited to CSS, much less flexible than C (or C++) code,
>   - theming code can no longer be shared between GTK+ 2 and 3,
>   - the existing oxygen-gtk3 theme no longer works, which broke Plasma
>     integration,
>   - efforts like the gtk-qt-engine have become completely impossible, every
>     single theme now has to be ported to GTK+ CSS.
> * the default DPI is now (at least in master) hardcoded to 96 instead of
>   defaulting to the value actually reported by the hardware.
> * abuse of nonstandard *-symbolic icons. Selecting monochromatic vs. colored
>   icon should be done by selecting the theme, not the icon name, and it
>   should adapt to the desktop. Non-GNOME desktops want colored icons, unless
>   they're using a theme like Breeze where (almost) ALL icons are
>   monochromatic (which also makes *-symbolic useless).
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

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Sérgio M. B.