Re: gtk+2.8.x and cairo (Owen Taylor)

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

OK, I understand that nobody wants to spend time fixing code that's only 
exercised on obsolete hardware.  But it's worth remembering that one of 
the key areas of interest/growth for Gnome is the low-cost and used 
hardware community in the developing world, etc.  As long as we're still 
pitching Gnome as a "less hungry alternative" to MS, we ought to be as 
interested in old graphics cards as we are about memory footprint and 
performance.

It's a trade-off.  For now, there's gtk+2.6, but I assume that Gnome 
will depend more strongly on later gtk+ versions soon enough...

Bill