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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: First deprecate APIs and then remove them in the next major version
From:       Tomasz_Gąsior <mail () tomaszgasior ! kao ! pl>
Date:       2017-12-23 14:40:51
Message-ID: 50665d99a40be82898f4865cfbe88c8a () tomaszgasior ! kao ! pl
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Instead of forking, you can create your own patches to vanilla GTK3. :)
I like GTK-based desktops but some GNOME devs decisions are not good to 
me, so I created my own patches for GTK3. You can do something similar.

See  https://github.com/TomaszGasior/gtk3-mushrooms

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Tomasz Gąsior
https://tomaszgasior.pl

W dniu 2017-12-23 14:47, Salvatore De Paolis napisał(a):
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:08:46 -0800
> Christian Hergert <christian@hergert.me> wrote:
> 
>> Ardour could never move to Gtk3 because a number of VST plugins use 
>> Gtk2
>> and you cannot mix both into the same process space. DAW authors will
>> often cite the necessity for plugins to be in process to allow for a
>> large number of tracks/plugins due to context switching. (This is a
>> contributing factor to why many DAWs write their own UI toolkits).
>> 
>> As for GIMP, I think the lesson I take away is that we need to recruit
>> people to go do the ports for important projects rather than expect 
>> them
>> to track us. Red Hat has shown that this strategy works in both 
>> Firefox
>> and LibreOffice (which are arguably the two hardest applications to 
>> port).
> 
> 
> http://libremusicproduction.com/news/20171221-lsp-plugins-version-110-released-farewall-gtk
> 
> I wonder why GTK+ has not been forked yet.
> 
> S.
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