Re: Any update about 2.18 Windows regression?

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 00:52 +1000, Dancefire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw the message on the page of gtkmm on Windows:
> 
> http://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows
> ------
> Please use version 2.16 for now, not 2.18 except if you really need
> 2.18 stuff. This is because GTK+ 2.18 contains serious regressions on
> Windows. Some applications were reported to behave badly because of
> the new client-side-windows code in GDK, and also the XP Windows theme
> does not work with 2.18 and is therefore disabled.
> ------
> 
> Since 2.20 is out for weeks, is there any update for this? does the
> regression have been fixed? Should we use 2.20 instead of 2.16 now?

It's mostly up to you. My experience is that everything except the XP
theme works well. Because of that I'd still suggest to only use a more
recent version than 2.16 if you really need any of the new functionality
though.

See also this thread for further reference:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2010-April/msg00025.html

Armin