Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions supported by SWT or

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrey Loskutov" <loskutov@xxxxxx>
> To: "Cross project issues" <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Aleksandar Kurtakov" <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 5:11:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions supported by SWT	or SWT call for help
> 
> BTW we at Advantest are still using RHEL 5.8, even because RHEL has crazy
> long support times :o)
> 
> Limiting to GTK3 only and drop GTK2 ports for *new* Eclipse releases would be
> good idea but AFAK GTK3 SWT port is still problematic (I'm on *latest*
> Ubuntu and must turn it off).
> 
> In general I would also prefer to have always *one* (smallest possible from
> latest GTK on major distros) SWT port for latest Eclipse release but that
> port must be 99% usable.
> 
> I won't hijack the thread, but the best long term solution for SWT Linux
> ports and Eclipse UI toolkit in general would be to move away from SWT to
> Java FX or better Qt (I know Qt LGPL license is a showstopper, but this *is*
> technically viable alternative). Without the man power of IBM (which
> originally allowed SWT to be developped for so many different plattforms)
> SWT as we have it today has no feature.

Options are endless. But let's try to limit the discussion towards Mars and Mars+1 for now. In this timeframe I don't think a new option will pop up and I'm trying to solve our daily issues first so we can try to look a bit further.


Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team

> 
> 
> Am 8. Oktober 2014 16:44:30 OESZ, schrieb Aleksandar Kurtakov
> <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Mat Booth" <mat.booth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "Cross project issues" <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:27:25 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions
> >supported by SWT	or SWT call for help
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Igor Fedorenko" <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> > To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, 8 October, 2014 12:38:10 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Limiting GTK versions
> >supported by
> >> > SWT	or SWT call for help
> >> > 
> >> > What major distribution still stuck with GTK2? Aren't they all on
> >GTK3
> >> > already?
> >> > 
> >> > --
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Igor
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> RHEL 6/CentOS 6 only has GTK 2.20, IIRC
> 
> 
> --
> Kind regards,
> Andrey Loskutov
> 
> http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
>