Re: GTK 2x and 3x mismatch.

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

On 6 July 2011 07:44, dE . <de techno gmail com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Ever since Gnome shell came out, my problems have been amplifying. Current
> problem are the themes, it happens that in Debian testing, the Gnome 2.x
> applications are being replaced by 3.x which's based on GTK3. As a result
> the 2.x themes don't apply on them. The 2.x themes are used by the few
> remaining 2.x apps + panels + metacity.
>
> Thus the desktop looks pretty ugly with these apps. I've seen Gnome 3 themes
> (with metacity themes + gtk 2.x + 3.x themes)... but they are very less in
> number and not available in the repositories. They also don't get installed
> with the existing theme manager.
>
> Next, I know as gnome 2.x becomes deprecated, gnome 3 apps will be pushed
> into tree, leaving gnome panels and metacity looking ugly.

gnome-panel is using GTK+3
You can help to port metacity yo gtk+3, see [1] and [2]

> I know gnome 2 panel applets are not backwards compatible with gnome 3
> panels, but does gnome panels 3 even have applets?

gnome-applets [3] were ported to gtk3 too.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572332
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612491
[3] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-applets/

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