[platform-swt-dev] GTK3 - What bugs are important

[Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

A lot of GTK2 related bugs, e.g. 
<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=526621>, seem not to be 
fixed because GTK3 is favored. I've now tried with the latest SWT 4.7 
build with our software and GTK3 and opening the preferences took ages, 
most likely because it contains 2 read-only comboboxes with all 
available text file encodings. It is following bug

<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=489640>

and these are the kind of bugs that prevent us from using GTK3 at the 
moment. Having to wait 10s to open a dialog is unacceptable - others 
have reported >1min.

I have not tried with SWT 4.8 yet, because that does not support 
machines any more that our users still use (e.g. CentOS/Redhat 6).

Maybe this thread can be used to collect the bugs that prevent users 
from switching to GTK3 in the current state.

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Best regards,
Thomas Singer
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