[Gtk-sharp-list] Towards GTK# 3.0

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

El 30/07/2012, a las 18:36, Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand.lorentz at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Some comments below.
> 
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Mike Kestner <mkestner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bertrand,
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Bertrand Lorentz
>> <bertrand.lorentz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> When I tried to run the Banshee GTK3 branch, the main issue I hit was
>>> in fact a regression in GTK+ itself:
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679232
>>> I guess it's a good sign about the state of the bindings themselves. ;)
>> 
>> I think the binding itself is in pretty good shape, and has been for a
>> while now.  There were a few tweaks needed for the Banshee port.  MD
>> would be another good test, but I doubt you will talk anyone into a v3
>> port of it.
> 
> That is also my impression after talking to a few MD guys. The
> cost/benefit is just not there for them.

Our current plan is to incrementally migrate MD to XWT (https://github.com/mono/xwt), since it will allow us to run MD using the native widgets in each platform we support. All we need then is a GTK# 3 backend for XWT.

Lluis.

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