Re: File chooser recent-files

[Simon McVittie <simon mcvittie collabora co uk>]

On 16/11/12 19:27, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> In retrospect, I completely agree with you:  the changes to make the
> file chooser start up in recently-used mode when no starting folder is
> specified, should have gone into master only, not in the stable
> branches.
...
> (The file chooser is a bit peculiar; I've wanted to keep it as much in
> sync as possible between GTK+ 2.24 and GTK+ 3.x, because Big Important
> Apps(tm) still use 2.24.  I didn't want a situation where the main apps
> use a shitty file chooser and "only" small/new Gnome utilities use the
> improved file chooser.)

If this sort of change is important, it sounds to me as though Gtk 2
should continue to have (short!) branches corresponding to a GNOME
release when necessary?

Happily, version numbers starting with "2" are not a finite resource. :-)

    S