Hello! Mario Rugiero has written on Sunday, 16 September, at 17:59:
>While running some routine checks (the likes that motivated my >patches), I found libfm's source includes a few files coming from exo, >nicely dated to ease comparison to upstream. >However, they are also /dated/ (2009-08-30), and it's likely some of >the bugs detected by the tools are already fixed upstream, and also >many more the tools didn't catch. Actually they were initially taken from libexo but rewritten a lot (GTK3 compatibility, accessibility, bugs, etc.). Some time (few years I think) ago I checked XFCE sources and imported relevant fixes into our code. As a matter of fact, I planned to further rework it, at least ExoTreeView class requires a massive rewrite. Unfortunately I constantly run out of free time so never started that rework. [.......] >Number 3 also comes with a lot of breakage, and not only means aiming >at a moving target, but it can cause harm to distributions, as they >may need to update the library and we may not fully support it for a >variety of reasons, one being we don't have yet complete support for >GTK3. That is not true. Complete GTK3 support was aimed yet for 1.2.0 version, and few discovered bugs were fixed since then. And, BTW, while libfm had GTK3 full support, libexo didn't, they added partial support on it much later. Another problem is that GTK3 is still buggy, it's why I avoid it personally. But LXDE as a whole should be working with GTK3 for a while, and there are distros that use GTK3-only builds for all LXDE components. >I think the most reasonable route would be to fix the immediate bugs >(as in option 1), then migrate to near-upstream and later move to use >it as a library. >Of course, I'm thinking of a span of at least several months. Depend on libexo is bad move, we'd get retro-bugs fixed long time ago, we will depend on XFCE intsallation, we will depend on XFCE developers, we will lose few our features and much more. And since actually libexo is a modified version of GTK+ classes (GtkIconView and GtkTreeView), following your logic we should abandon all our extra features and go stright to GTK classes as GTK gets even more attention than XFCE, right? :) With best regards, Andriy. _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
