Hub Figuière wrote on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:13:34 -0700:
> On 11-10-25 1:15 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>> I appreciate your work on porting AbiWord to GTK 3.0, but I don't think
>> that it is a good idea to cut support for GTK 2.x. I mean, it runs fine
>> with GTK 2.x. There probably isn't much we'd really *need* from GTK 3.0,
>> it probably is more about that GTK 3.0 *differs* in some aspects.
> Gtk3 is parallel installable with Gtk2. What's the problem with going
> forward?
If all my other applications run fine with GTK 2.x, why should I install
GTK 3.0 just to be able to run AbiWord?
Currently, AbiWord runs fine with GTK 2.x and is a (relatively) small
application with few (but unfortunately growing) dependencies. That's the
reason why I and many other people are using it as their word processor
rather than a monster like Open/LibreOffice.
My point was that if there are changes necessary to make it run on GTK 3.0,
do so with GTK_CHECK_VERSION() checks, and do so for new features (which
GTK 2.x users won't benefit of), but don't unnecessarily cut existing and
working GTK 2.x support.
Keep it small (on dependencies and requirements).
Ingo
Received on Wed Oct 26 14:33:54 2011
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