Re: Metacity towards GNOME 3.0

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 19:04 +0000, Rob Bradford wrote:
> On 1 December 2010 21:29, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> > Metacity is an important component of GNOME 3 as the window manager in
> > fallback mode. There's a couple of major things that need doing to make
> > it work in the GNOME 3 stack that I wanted to bring up here. Both of
> > them already have patches but we need to figure out exactly we want
> > to do.
> 
> > Port to GTK+ 3.0
> > ================
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622285
> >
> 
> >  - We could support dual building. This is tricky, but there exist
> >   patches developed for Mutter to do this that could be ported
> >   over. (Benjamin Otte spent quite a bit of time working on this,
> >   and then a week or so after the changes landed, we realized there was
> >   nobody still building Mutter against GTK+ 2, so it was pointless
> >   to carry the complexity.)
> 
> There are various MeeGo projects at Intel where mutter is serious
> player; we'd like to move away from our "fork" to the GNOME version so
> Benjamin's work is certainly appreciated since despite trying hard I
> don't think we'll get GTK3 into the distribution in time for 1.2
> (release date scheduled for April.)

Mutter was already switched over to be GTK+ 3.0-only a while ago (after
consultation with you guys.) If there was a strong need, we could revert
that out but it would be far from the first choice.

GTK+ 3.0 will be out long before April, so I don't think there is a
problem with shipping it in something released in April. Obviously,
porting everything over to GTK+ 3.0 would be a different issue.

- Owen