[Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

[Robert Ancell]

On 04/07/2011 05:59 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and
> GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions", I see
> the following particular challenges:
>
>  * Review our patches, and be rather aggressive about removing those
>    which are intrusive and which we have carried for ages without
>    upstream acceptance. Of course there are also still patches which
>    we haven't even proposed upstream, these should be discussed in
>    bugzilla.gnome.org.
>
>  * Port pygtk2 apps to PyGI with GTK3. The biggest ones are
>    ubiquity and software-center, but there is also quite a long tail
>    of smaller upstream software.
>
>  * Discuss GTK3 theming with UX/design. Our current murrine based
>    Humanity theme doesn't work with GTK3.
>
> I expect that this will bind a lot of developer capacity next cycle,
> but at the same time it's very important that we do this to not lose
> track with GNOME.
>
> Martin
Can we get all our CD applications using GTK3?  I'm thinking of Firefox
here, we really don't want to have one or two applications requiring
both packages on the CD..