On 11/29/06, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 12:00 +0100, Jerome Warnier a écrit : > I'm particularly eager to see GNOME 2.16 released with Etch, if that's > still possible after all (officially, we are only a few days ahead, > right?).There is still a lot to do to have GNOME 2.16 mature enough for a stable release, and I still feel the decision to ship GNOME 2.14 was the right one. This is in no way an official statement from the GNOME team, but here is my view of the state of GNOME 2.16. * GTK+: I've just received a patch for the most annoying bug (missing icons in the file chooser). However I'm afraid the filechooser API is still a nest for many other ones. * Gnome-VFS: this one was moved to DBUS, which is an important change, but I haven't noticed any regressions so far. However, to benefit from the improvements nautilus needs to be updated as well. * Icon themes: the icon naming scheme was entirely switched to Tango, but only for the default theme. Which means there is a lot to do to have other working icon themes. Help to migrate especially Gorilla, Gartoon and Nuvola is welcome. * gnome-themes: several themes have been removed without a clean upgrade path. This one is probably the matter of a few symbolic links. * evince: needs more testing. I noticed some issues with djvu support, but this may be bearable, or we could deactivate it. It also needs libpoppler1 which affects TeX as well. * control-center: this one is rumoured to be horribly buggy. I can tell at least that the gswitchit code doesn't work *at all*. Even given enough delay for the rest of the work (which is unlikely), I'm not sure this one (and gnome-session which is entangled with it) could make it, and I don't know whether it will make it to unstable before 2.18. * Many packages depend on either GTK+, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-vfs or all of them, this is what is blocking most of them.
What's the statues of these at this moment? I'd like to go for Experimental pretty soon, especially since I can't wait for the left-pane single click functionality now available in both nautilus and the GTK filechooser.
