On 2015-07-29, 10:47 GMT, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> As I have thought for some time, I think we should have a team to keep >> packages and make migrations like gtk2 to gkt3, libgnome2, pyorbit, >> gnome-python2, pyhton2 to python3 , qt3 etc etc > > Wishful thinking. Porting from gtk2 to gtk3 is non-trivial or not even > feasible in all cases (without dropping some features/implementations). > Some developers are unhappy with gtk3. Others switch to Qt. I would say that the transition from Gtk2 to Gtk3 was pretty much a disaster especially in terms of the 3rd part software. * Firefox is still Gtk2 (and there is only one Martin Stránský working on the transition, and although he is an übermensch, the transition is still far from complete https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699; not mentioning Thunderbird https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043146) * pidgin is still Gtk2 (and port to Gtk3 is one of the main hindrances of version 3.0 I believe) * GIMP of all programs (original software for which Gtk was created) is still Gtk2. * I know about at least two projects which are effectively dead because of missing transition and their upstream authors just gave up in disgust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribes_%28software%29 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBrout) * Actually, I have hard time to imagine which large 3rd party projects did switch from Gtk2 to Gtk3. Best, Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mcepl@xxxxxxxxxx GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string … teach him to make his own regular expressions and you’ve got a man with problems. -- yakugo in http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3022 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
