Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

[Xan <xan lopez gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org> wrote:
>> It is just not cool to use Gtk.
>
> I think that pretty much hits it on the nail.  Some people want a cool
> project to work on.  By all means, go ahead!  Fork gtk+ to something
> new, cool, fancy.  But leave existing gtk+ bugzilla and svn module
> alone.
>

This is exactly what they are doing, that's why they call it GTK+ 3.0,
or 2.99.0, or whatever. You are free to keep using and maintaining the
2.x series for as long as you need. Now, if you'd like *others* to
spend *their* time doing what *you* would like them to do, well,
that's different.