RE: Gtk/Gnome release schedules

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Martyn, Bob, Owen,

	Since this is an emotive topic, and there are never any shortage of
people crawling out of the woodwork to tell Owen to work even harder /
faster :-) I think we should recognise, that since we are lumbered with
at least 1 deprecated file selector (FS) API, we all agree that it's
worth taking time to make sure that the new one is solid.

	Also; some of the other bits in the new gtk+ plan, such as (eg.) the
auto-completion stuff for GtkEntries is (perhaps) tied to the
implementation of the FS.[1], and also fairly tricky to get right
(AFAIR from talking to Clahey/Trow).

	It seems to me that we should all wait until Owen is 100% happy with
the new FS code, which could be as long as it takes.

	Having said that - it would be nice to think that if
Owen/Kris/Hadess/Whomever got abnormally hyperactive and produce
something that everyone likes RSN, that we could (perhaps) do a stop-gap
Gtk+-2.4 release, based off the 2.2 branch, with only the new FS API [
and internal auto-completion stuff ? ].

	Owen - is that a reasonable straw for the hopeful to clutch at for the
moment ? that _might_ then result in getting something beautiful for
Gnome 2.4 - assuming that is that Gnome sticks with the 6 month
schedule.

	Regards,

		Michael.

[1] - that is assuming that Gtk+ will not provide a fully abstract file 
      selection API, without wanting to provide an implementation too.
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