Re: Application bundles in Gnome OS

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 15:07 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> > How long we ship GTK+-2 is a related question.
> 
> Or at all.

[...]

> Thats not what I mean though. I meant that the CSS syntax that Gtk3
> supports for themeing, which is availible via various Gtk+ API calls
> have changed over the Gtk3 lifecycle, such that an Gtk 3.2 app that
> loads some custom css may well not work correctly with Gtk 3.4. We're
> not strictly ABI incompat as the program will not die due to a linker
> error, but neighter will it do what the program expects.

The thing to note here is that the GTK2 and GTK3 questions are related,
not separate =)  If we don't do a good job in keeping GTK3 a stable
target for ISVs, they're just going to stick with GTK2 longer.