On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/10/2011 07:04 PM, Auguste Pop wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Oon-Ee Ng<ngoonee.talk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Or you could just save yourself the hassle and just switch over to >>> XFCE, awesomewm, the possibilities are endless. More productive than >>> pining over a DE that's now officially dead (dying). >>> >> >> xfce depends on gtk2. when gnome3 hits the repo, i assume gtk3 will >> deprecate gtk2, which will in turn deprecate xfce. it is possible to >> maintain gtk2 and gtk3 at the same time, but using a desktop >> environment depending on a deprecated library seems not so good. >> anyway, we are still using tons of applications depending on the >> deprecated python2. :p > > > gtk2 is not deprecated. it won't get any features but is still maintained > > -- > Ionuț > thank you for the information. i found a blog by matthias saying he would maintain gtk2 for a long long time. that's quite reassuring. :-)
