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The first release of GTK3 that could be considered stable was 3.20. Either way, I'm talking about GTK4, where the original plan was 6 months of breaking release
by sirwhinesalot 3y ago
The first release of GTK3 that could be considered stable was 3.20. Either way, I'm talking about GTK4, where the original plan was 6 months of breaking releases, stabilization in version 4.6, followed by starting work on the incompatible GTK5, to be released 2 years after the first GTK4 release.
The backlash was so big they at least changed the versioning scheme, but the "break shit every 2 years" is still in full force.
- TingPing 3y agoGTK3 did not break its C API. The CSS you could inject was arbitrary and undocumented. They stabilized and documented that in 3.20, yes. I think its very dishonest to say the toolkit was breaking, the vast majority of GTK3 apps didn’t have regressions IME.
- sirwhinesalot 3y agoIt affected desktop environments not called Gnome. Either way, the problem is GTK4 (and onwards), not 3.