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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 18:21 UTC (Wed) by mitr (subscriber, #31599)
In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by ovitters
Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Well, _somebody_ needs to do the porting work for applications that are not directly a part of GNOME away from the "old infrastructure"; this seems not to have been happening too much.

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Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:11 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

Please be specific. I don't get what you mean at all, I already asked what is meant with infrastructure.

E.g. maybe you mean bonobo, in which case I think there is nothing using that. Maybe you mean gtk+2.0, in which case I do see progress (e.g. Firefox, Gimp), it is just taking some time. Maybe you mean gconf, in which I also see progress (often done at the same time as a gtk+3 switch).

All these GNOME 2 applications have worked and are working totally fine. Suggest to ignore claims of sabotage in this regard :P

Regarding porting work, various GNOME developers have performed porting work in more than just "core GNOME" stuff. Just take a look at a few of the GNOME goals.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 22, 2012 8:58 UTC (Thu) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]

there are people still porting gtk 1.x applications (we get emails on the gtk-* mailing lists every couple of months) 2 years after the gtk 3.0 release, and 11 years after the 2.0 release, so I would not be surprised to see applications still being ported to gtk 3 in the next 10 years. it's not an indication of anything, except that the world of ad hoc applications moves at a fairly different pace than the free and open source software.