Re: Appearance properties

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:58 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le 10/11/2009 17:36, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 17:23 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> >> Le 10/11/2009 15:23, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > <snip>
> >> It is quite simple : this change affected all ISV (we could say inkscape
> >> was an ISV for instance, or Firefox) which were using GTK+, without any
> >> kind of prior notification to be able to fix their application.
> >>
> >> That is the reason why I had to revert the "icon in button" and "icon in
> >> menu" on Mandriva Linux 2010.
> >
> > Vendors had 4 months head-way to test for changes, and fix them. If 4
> > months isn't enough, I'm not sure how much advance warning we need to
> > give for something so easily fixable.
> 
> I don't remember seeing the announcement for this change anywhere and 
> people discovered it after libgnome 2.27.5 was released in end of july 
> (or a little before when it was committed on July 14).

It was posted to d-d-l, and Andreas blogged about it on Planet. I'm not
sure what else we can do.