Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2011-01-25

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hey :),

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 17:57 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Minutes
> 
> • overriding icons (css equivalent for gtkrc stock icons)
>   ∘ it is possible to do override stock icons by relying on the
> fallback to icon-theme and prepending to the icon theme path
>   ∘ some stock functionality (per-state, per-text-direction variants)
> not available in this way
>   ∘ -> punted to 3.2
> • key themes
>   ∘ carlos has started to look into it, but not going to be done in time

I actually got something working yesterday night, it's living in the
key-theme branch, still in need of bringing back documentation from
GtkBindingSet and parsing a couple of files.

>   ∘ -> punted to 3.2
> • treeview port to GtkStyleContext
>   ∘ has been through two rounds of review, almost there
>   ∘ kris is going to finish the final review tomorrow
>   ∘ -> will land this week
> • replacement for /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
>   ∘ need a way to set themes for gtk apps running outside a session
> (examples: anaconda, firstboot)
>   ∘ GtkCssProvider doesn't look in /etc
>   ∘ We can't set settings in css, currently
>   ∘ -> I'm going to investigate a simple keyfile to provide overrides
> for the default values of settings, should be ready before the end of
> th week
> • cell layout initialization
>   ∘ the general feeling was that the current situation (derived cell
> layout implementations have to know to do stuff in constructor instead
> of init) is not acceptable.
>   ∘ some of the concerns about the complication of changing cell areas
> at 'bad times' can be addressed e.g. by restricting this to unrealized
> widgets, or to views without models, etc.
>   ∘ the current patch to make cell areas runtime-settable is incomplete
>   ∘ proposal: Make cell-areas non-settable in 3.0. Considering there
> is only one cell area implementation, this is not a huge loss.
> Alternatively, complete the patch for runtime-settable cell areas
> within the next week.
> • release timing:
>   ∘ considering that we still plan to land changes this week, will do
> a 2.99.4 release next Tuesday, then wait a week to declare it 3.0
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