Sure but I did say in my draft that we are porting and that it sets a bright new future – but really for the average user it doesn’t matter much what kind of tools we use – it’s what it means for the user that is important
From: calligra-devel [mailto:calligra-devel-boun...@kde.org] On Behalf Of Jaroslaw Staniek Sent: 5. januar 2017 11:45 To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list <calligra-devel@kde.org> Subject: Re: 3.0.0.1 tarball + signature On 5 January 2017 at 11:32, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org <mailto:b...@valdyas.org> > wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > On 5 January 2017 at 11:05, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org > <mailto:b...@valdyas.org> > wrote: > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > > > > IMHO If it's not marked as a big thing, the media and users will > > > definitely mark this as not important and move over. Inkscape just made a > > > release that highlights a port to GTK+3 as an important news. > > > > Um... The version inkscape just released isn't the gtk3 port, it's still > > gtk2 based. > > > > I referred to > https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/01/04/inkscape-version-092-released/ > and it > > marks C++ upgrade and Gtk3 port as important. > > No: it says "(Future infrastructure changes include switching from bzr to git, shifting from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and moving to the C++11 standard.)" I.e., that's what they're going to do. Sorry, just noticed this, hard grammar to me; regardless, they found it important to notify users what they do apart of adding features and more importantly why :) -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
