Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

2010-08-13 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 21:34 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > The maintenance overhead is just not worth it and that's most likely the > > reason. When projects get to the size of GTK+ you really notice this > > overhead. > > The big question to me is, why has it grown to this size in the > first

Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Martyn Russell schrieb: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:54 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:16, Matthias Clasen > > > That may be, but 'disable this random set of widgets I don't need' > > > patches have very little chance of going upstream. > > > > Why do they have

Re: disabling GTK+ features to shrink GTK+

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe schrieb: > Maybe the patches may be useful to someone else, and you want > to makethose available from one place, that is upstream. If upstream doesn't want it, lets make a downstream for (eg. in the OSS-QM project). I'm also concerned about continously increasing size a

Re: Website proposal for usability

2010-08-13 Thread Devin Samarin
2010/8/12 Martyn Russell : > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:28 +0200, Javier Jardón wrote: >> 2010/8/12 Martyn Russell : >> > I like some of the proposed changes here. There are some other things >> > that I think need changing (which were there before) such as the NEWS on >> > the main page. It just doe

Re: Dropping DirectFB backend from GTK 3

2010-08-13 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Fully agree. The Debian installer team was providing some maintenance effort - albeit delayed by the version constraints of the project - but now they switched to X as well. Clearly, there are no stakeholders interested in the continued support of DFB. Ciao, Emmanuele. (Sorry for the quoting: I'm

Dropping DirectFB backend from GTK 3

2010-08-13 Thread Benjamin Otte
Hey, This is a notice that I intend to drop the DirectFB backend from GDK 3. It hasn't compiled for weeks now and I haven't heard from anyone saying he'd look at it. More than that, people I asked about it have told me that it's basically broken since 2.18, which is almost a year ago. So it seems

Re: Website proposal for usability

2010-08-13 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 08/12/2010 10:50 AM, Martyn Russell wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:54 -0700, Devin Samarin wrote: I was browsing around gtk.org and I thought that it could use some adjustments. So I downloaded the web files with git and made some changes. I attached some screenshots and example file on Bug