Re: Metacity towards GNOME 3.0

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 17:23 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
> >  - We could just make it require GTK+ 3.0. This is my suggestion -
> >   GNOME 3 is a GTK+ 3.0-based desktop. Metacity is the GNOME
> >   (fallback) window manager. GTK+ 3.0 will be released as a
> >   stable toolkit before Metacity 3.0 is released. If people need
> >   to Metacity build against older GTK+, the older tarballs aren't
> >   going to be removed from the website.
> >
> >   If someone wants to use Metacity 3.0 in a legacy environment -
> >   on an older operating system - the GSettings requirement, which we
> >   can't get away from, would be a big problem.
> >
> 
> Hi Owen,
> 
> Does this mean that libmetacity-private will also depend on GTK+ 3.0 ?
> Compiz currently uses this library to handle frame drawing from
> metacity themes and I need to know whether I need to update the deps
> there.

Yes, that would be a consequence. (If we made it dual build then you'd
have to handle both which would be no fun at all.)

- Owen