Re: [platform-dev] [platform-swt-dev] SWT-GTK3 bugs for 4.9

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

This means you'll rule out all pre Java9 code who uses the
Swing-Integration and JavaFX? IIRC only Java9+ is able to run on Gtk3.

I happily run SWT_AWT on OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_171-b10) so that seems to not be true.

 

Tom

On 30.05.18 21:31, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Eric Williams <ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     4.8 is almost done and many GTK3 bugs have been fixed. For 4.9, we
>     are again focusing on GTK3 bugs and performance issues.
>
>     If you are running SWT/Eclipse on GTK2, please try with GTK3 as we
>     are trying to root out all SWT bugs which prevent GTK2 users from
>     switching to GTK3. If you already filed a bug awhile ago, please
>     feel free to email/CC me as a reminder -- we have a backlog of old
>     bugs so sometimes these things slip through the cracks.
>
>     We also have the 4.9 GTK3 bug tracker which can be found here:
>     https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535255
>     <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535255>
>
>
> It's worth noting that GTK 2 support will be dropped as soon as work
> towards supporting GTK 4 starts so please stop using GTK 2 backend.
>  
>
>
>
>     Thanks,
>
>
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>     Software Engineer - Eclipse/SWT Team
>     Red Hat
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