Gconf or GSettings? - leading to a wider question

[Linus Torvalds]

Sorry about the "auto corrects". I wrote that on my tablet, and it thought
'code' should be 'coffee' and a few other things I didn't notice while
writing.

I'm not drunk early on a Saturday morning. Really. it's the tablet, I swear.

        Linus
On Jan 19, 2013 9:15 AM, torvalds at linux-foundation.org wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2013 12:57 AM, "Amit Chaudhuri" <amit.k.chaudhuri at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Two different lines of though bring me to ask the same question.
> Namely, why does subsurface use Gtk2 and not the newer version?
>
> Even within the Linux world, gtk2 is much more portable than gtk3. I still
> have machines with older distributions that simply don't have gtk3
> available.
>
> When you then look at the windows and osx situation, its even more clear
> that gtk2 is the right choice for portability.
>
> That said, gtk3 has better integration with cairo, and I looked at
> allowing people to build using it (while still also working with gtk2).
> However, the gtk people don't understand about compatibility, and it was
> much too painful to try to have both work. Not only does gtk3 have new
> interfaces, they also drop old ones even when they would seem to be easy to
> support with some compat layer.
>
> If you know gtk well enough that you know how to write things so that they
> work with both versions (without just duplicating coffee and having tons of
> ifdefs in the code) I think that would be reasonable.
>
> But quite frankly, subsurface isn't the only project that decided that
> gtk3 want worth it. I don't understand projects that cannot seem to realize
> that compatibility is one of the absolute primary goals. Gtk3 screwed the
> pooch on that. Even gtk2 has several cases of " we added a new interface,
> and then we removed the old one".
>
> Christ, what a pain. I would be almost more supportive of trying to move
> to something else entirely, based on the silly compatibility problems we've
> had with gtk. I don't know if there is anything better, though.
>
>                  Linus
>
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