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Re: [platform-dev] [platform-swt-dev] SWT-GTK3 bugs for 4.9
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On 08.06.2018 15:46, Eric Williams wrote:
>>> In practice, GTK3 bugs specific to Ubuntu 16.04 are already ignored -- we will
>>> accept patches for them but otherwise no time is spent on these issues.
>>
>> Wouldn't that be a reason to keep it around, to make sure that these systems can
>> switch to the GTK+2 implementation to circumvent bugs?
>
> I would rather people upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS than still use 16.04. Apart
> from an up-to-date GTK3, Ubuntu 18.04 uses GNOME which also resolves a lot of
> Ubuntu specific bugs. There were also a lot of theme fixes for 18.04 which make
> quite a difference IIRC.
>
>> Though, giving this some more thought, my previous arguments are pretty much
>> moot, as you and Aleksandar have pointed out. I might be one of the few which
>> are using SWT with the GTK+2 implementation because the biggest part of my DE is
>> still GTK+2.
>
> Is this the only reason? Or are there some other SWT GTK3 bugs which prevent you
> from using SWT-GTK3? The DE being GTK2 shouldn't be an issue when running SWT-GTK3.
To end the discussion shortly: It depends, part of it and no.
Thinking about this some more, I've realized that I'm quite a special case here
and my point of view does not apply to a lot of people nor that it is relevent.
Sorry for unnecessarily sidetracking this discussion. I guess I still can't wrap
my head around the idea to have GTK+ releases being deprecated the moment they
have stabilized, and practically only getting 2 years of stable life out of a
release. That is still a thought that is absolutely insane to me.
