Hello everyone! As you may have already read, we might be dropping support for Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 in our next release (version 1.1). The reason is... Debian requires that we discontinue support for Glade (which is the library we use to load our GUI from XML files). If we stop using Glade, we will switch to Gtkbuilder, which requires GTK 2.16 (for OpenShot to work). GTK 2.16 is available in Ubuntu 9.04+.
The only work-around to maintain compatibility with Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 is to manually create some of the GUI with Python, instead of using just the XML files. This seems like a step backwards, and would waste a lot of time. I'm sure a few users will be upset that we no longer have support for older distributions, but 91% of our downloads are for Ubuntu 9.04 and higher. If our goal is to be accepted into Debian (and then Ubuntu 10.04), we must move forward with Gtkbuilder. If you have any concerns or questions, now is the time to speak up. =) Thanks, -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
