[Sugar-devel] Reminder of GTK3 plans

[Simon Schampijer]

On 10/28/2011 04:49 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This weekend, several of us are meeting in Prague for Sugar/GTK3 hacking:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Gtk3_Hackfest_2011
>
> We will be implementing the plan described at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GTK3
> which has already seen a few rounds of discussion/refinement
>
> As a quick reminder of the overall plan:
> - sugar-artwork will ship a GTK3 theme
> - sugar-toolkit will ship a new "sugar1" module which will be the
> equivalent of "sugar" but ported to GTK3
> - The release version numbering scheme will not change - we will go
> 0.96 0.98 0.100 0.102 etc. every 6 months
> - Some sugar-toolkit API removals/cleanups will happen in the new
> sugar1 module (see the above link)
> - The existing GTK2 "sugar" sugar-toolkit module will stay put for a
> transition period, but frozen (no further changes accepted)
> - Read (currently broken) can then be ported to GTK3
> - Browse (currently broken) can then be ported to GTK3 and WebKit
> - Other activities and the sugar shell can follow later - there is no
> immediate urgency to port things that are not broken
>
> It is my hope that this weekend we can crank out a working GTK3 theme
> and put that alongside the earlier Desktop Summit work which showed
> how sugar-toolkit could be easily ported to GTK3 (see
> http://www.itevenworks.net/2011/10/porting-sugar-toolkit-to-gtk3/ ).
> Hopefully we will finish the weekend with the changes committed to
> sugar-toolkit and sugar-artwork master.
>
> cheers
> Daniel

The current repository for the sugar-toolkit using gtk-3 is at [1].

Regards,
    Simon

[1] 
http://git.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commits/master