Re: Gtk+4.0

[Thomas Martitz <kugel rockbox org>]

Am 15.08.2016 um 14:48 schrieb Sébastien Wilmet:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 02:20:25PM +0200, Peter Weber wrote:
> > I think breaking the API/ABI because of required changes, is right,
> > breaking API/ABI because a fixed number of months has passed doesn't make
> > much sense.
>  From time to time, it is nice to get rid of deprecated APIs, to have
> less code to maintain. GTK+ 3 has quite a lot of deprecated classes. So
> getting rid of those, that alone is a good reason to release GTK+ 4, in
> my opinion.

Tons of the deprecated APIs have no nice replacement, or no replacement 
at all. For example GtkImageMenuItem, Stock Items, GtkActivatable. 
Removing them will just make adoption of Gtk 4 even harder.

Best regards.