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What does that have to do with backwards compatibility? Gnome hasn’t received a major update in ages because it required so much work to support gtk4. Of cours
by awill 4y ago
What does that have to do with backwards compatibility?
Gnome hasn’t received a major update in ages because it required so much work to support gtk4.
Of course gimp would keep working if you keep it on gtk3.
- laweijfmvo 3y agoI guess I was imagining a scenario where Gnome 55 on Gtk 7 completely breaks compatibility with older Gtk apps and all the distros stopped providing Gtk 2/3 in their repositories and there were conflicts/headaches trying to get it all working. As long as Gtk continues to have backwards compat, old/unmaintained apps should never just 'stop working'.
- int_19h 3y agoBut your Gtk2 apps will not work on later versions of Gtk, and most distros are on the track to remove Gtk2 from the repos. So this isn't a hypothetical. And it will be the same once Gtk3 is phased out: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html
- robertlagrant 4y agoWhy are you agreeing so adversarially?
- awill 4y agoNot trying to be adversarial. But I’m not agreeing. Obviously gimp will keep working if they don’t upgrade the dependencies. I don’t understand how that is impressive.