Re: Metacity towards GNOME 3.0

[Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>]

On 2 December 2010 19:15, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ah. I was under that impression too ... so I was surprised to see you
mention 2+3 support.

Cheerio,

Rob