On 05/27/2016 10:21 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase > clinging to gtk2 for dubious political or aesthetical reasons. > > For the latter cases, despite GNOME teams policy and strong preference > on not providing a choice and just choosing gtk2 or gtk3 (gtk3 if it's > working as good as gtk2), some cases exist where the maintainers want > to provide such choice. In some cases it is understandable for a short > while during transition, e.g firefox. In other cases, it is purely for > the sake of providing the choice of working with a deprecated toolkit, > apparently. > > My highly biased essay aside, we need to finally globally agree on what > we do in this situation. If we allow this choice at all, only for > special cases, or widespread. And if this choice is provided, how do we > name the USE flag. > I don't see the benefit of forcing people off of gtk2 to gtk3 when gtk2 is working just fine. gtk2 is entrenched, and will take a while to migrate apps from. A parallel, why don't we just drop python2.7? It's old, superseded, and plenty of things support python3.x. I disagree with this logic. In my opinion, we should remove support for them when it seems that it has been dropped by a majority of packages or unfixed security issues make it not worth keeping around. I don't think we are anywhere near that point.
[...] > Thoughts? Agreements? Suggestions? > I'm particularly interested in QA opinion here. I believe WilliamH > wanted to spearhead this from their side. > > > Regards, > Mart Raudsepp > Gentoo developer, GNOME team > Flag specific comments to follow in WilliamH's reply. -- NP-Hardass
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