Re: Plans for GTK+ in the next cycle

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 01:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I've meant to write this mail for a while. Now that 2.16 is released,
> it is really overdue. Here are my thoughts on the next GTK+ cycle. I
> think we should aim to release 2.18 around the next Guadec (this was
> the original plan for 2.16, before I decided to shorten it and do a
> release in sync with Gnome 2.26).
> 
> Here is a short list of things that I consider as candidates for the next cycle:
> 
> - Alex' client-side windows work
> 
> - Making flippable widgets non-abstract
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553573)
> 
> - A message area widget (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555344)
> 
> Other things are of course possible, depending on people signing up to
> do the necessary work.

I think it's long past time to get extended-layout in. I'll get someone
at Openismus to push it if a maintainer will review it.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00145.html

We'd also like to get GtkToolPallette in:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567729

> In order to get Alex' work merged asap, I'd like to see GTK+ (and
> GLib) do the move to git earlier than the proposed date of April 16
> for the general git migration of Gnome. So unless there are violent
> complaints from regular committers, I propose to have GTK+ and GLib
> migrate to git by March 31 (ie a week from now).
> 
> Our plans from last year were aiming for a parallel 2.90 release at
> the same time. Since I haven't heard an update from the 3.0 drivers, I
> can't say if that is still realistic at this point.

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Murray Cumming
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