Re: Metacity towards GNOME 3.0

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27 gmail com>]

On 02/12/10 17:54, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 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.)

When switching to gtk+3, since the SONAME will need to change, maybe you could 
rename the library to libmetacity, since it doesn't seem to be private at all... :)

Regards,
Emilio