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I feel like a well-executed Gtk2 fork could be very popular. I checked and MATE uses Gtk3—I thought it had forked Gtk2 along with GNOME2, but apparently not.
by PeCaN 10y ago
I feel like a well-executed Gtk2 fork could be very popular. I checked and MATE uses Gtk3—I thought it had forked Gtk2 along with GNOME2, but apparently not.
- audidude 10y agoIt turns out if you want modern features you pretty much have to change everything that was done in the drawing model in gtk2.
- digi_owl 10y agoBecause there is no need. GTK3 is basically a fork of GTK at this point. Just grab GTK2 and go. The basic problem is that most of GTK development is happening "thanks" to Gnome and Red Hat, and they are gung ho about GTK3. In essence, how the fuck do you keep going when the 800lb gorilla wants to go in a different direction?
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- audidude 10y agoGTK development is done by the people that show up to do the work and contribute patches. That happens to be, by and large, GNOME developers. The best way to affect GTK development is to either 1) show up for hackfests (like this week in Toronto), 2) join in on IRC where we plan things, 3) work on bugs, submit patches, etc I've been working on GTK for the better part of two decades, and employed by Red Hat for about 9 months. They have in no way ever influenced my contributions (I've barely ever been to an office). My contributions were just as many before my employment as they are now. My suggestion would be to join in on #gtk+ and make your voice heard this week while we plan out the next year of work (unless you are Toronto based, and then just join in person).