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

Hello,

The bug "Bug 529563 - [GTK3] Tree does not repaint upon request"

<https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=529563>

causes us some head-aches, because users think SmartGit 18.1 preview (which defaults to SWT_GTK3=1) is slower than SmartGit 17.1 (which defaults to SWT_GTK3=0). We had a longer discussion internally whether we should switch back to SWT_GTK3=0. I'd really would appreciate GTK3 bugs reported with reproducible test case to be fixed rather sooner than later - the SWT support on the Linux platform seems to be the least stable from the 3 major platforms.

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Best regards,
Thomas Singer
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syntevo GmbH
http://www.syntevo.com
http://www.syntevo.com/blog


On 2017-11-18 11:30, Thomas Singer wrote:
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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syntevo GmbH
http://www.syntevo.com
http://www.syntevo.com/blog
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