On 13/11/2014 15:51, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > We are not likely going to move to Gtk# 3 any time soon. > > We have evolved the plan over the years, but this is the current plan: > > * We are going to be refactoring Xamarin Studio along engine vs UI > components, to allow us to build native UIs for each component (WPF > on Windows, Cocoa on Mac, Gtk# on Linux). > > * We typically start with a Gtk# UI, because that one already works > everywhere, so we start with this, and we then provide the > per-platform UIs. > > Replacing Gtk# 2 with 3 is not really a goal. They change the API, and > are about to change it again with 4. > > When we move everything over to this split UI system, we will take a > look at whether it is worth upgrading to newer versions of Gtk, but for > now, version 2 has lots of custom improvements for Mac and Windows that > have not yet been added to 3.
But if you move everything to the split UI system the custom Gtk 2 improvements for Mac and Windows will not be needed anymore and probably replacing them with Gtk 3 equivalents will make a nice improvement on the front of OS integration for Xamarin Studio on Linux. Yes, this is another half-hidden attempt at having CS on Linux. :) federico -- Federico Di Gregorio federico.digrego...@dndg.it Di Nunzio & Di Gregorio srl http://dndg.it Io non sono romantica. La candelina sul tavolo mi vede e si spegne. -- sisterconfusion _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list