Re: gtk 2.8 for gnome 2.12

[Øivind Hoel <oivind hoel gmail com>]

Switching to browsing mode is something old-time gnome users like
myself do. Because we like what we're used to, not because Spatial is
a piece of shit. I gather the "most people" you're talking about are
such users, not newcomers.

Breaking old habits is difficult (which is why I use a terminal to do
stuff that now has nice gui tools for them)

On 7/21/05, Carl Worth <cworth cworth org> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:10:04 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> >       * Cairo itself has a list of requirements for 1.0 in
> >         cairo/ROADMAP and it looks far from finished.
> >
> >         Section "A9" will break the API, work remains on "A10", "A12"
> >         and possibly "A13".  This is in addition to various other
> >         items still on the queue before they release 1.0.
> 
> I just updated the ROADMAP[1] to reflect our current plans, which is
> that all API _changes_ are scheduled for an as-soon-as-possible 0.6,
> leaving just a couple of API additions on the 1.0 roadmap.
> 
> Of the 4 API changes mentioned there, 3 of them have patches on the
> cairo mailing list that have already been reviewed and appear to have
> consensus, (in fact Keith just committed one).
> 
> And the last API change should just change a handful of functions from
> returning cairo_status_t to have a return type of void[2]. I'll work
> on that now.
> 
> >       * We do not have a commitment not to break the API after the
> >         GNOME 2.12 release in six weeks.
> 
> I do commit to that.
> 
> We'll have cairo 0.6 out within days not weeks. And the API/ABI
> stable 1.0 out within weeks not months, (as soon as we can, and
> before GNOME 2.12).
> 
> So those are my plans for cairo. Please make your own plans and
> decisions accordingly.
> 
> -Carl
> 
> [1] http://cvs.cairographics.org/*checkout*/cairo/ROADMAP
> 
> [2] This shouldn't break any programs since nobody checks error return
> values anyway, right? ;-) ;-)
> 
> 
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