| Re: [platform-swt-dev] Bumping minimum version of GTK3 to 3.14 in 4.11 |
+1 from me.
No doubts, with more resources this would be may be different, but for now we have no other alternative. Maintaining this spaghetti code is a Nightmare.
Am 29. November 2018 18:03:20 MEZ schrieb Eric Williams <ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>Hello,
>
>For the 4.11 release, I believe SWT will strongly benefit from moving
>to
>a minimum version of GTK3.14. Here are some specific details:
>
>-CSS for backgrounds and foregrounds is 3.14+, no more GtkStyleContext
>background/foreground machinery
>
>-no need to support pre-3.10 drawing model changes
>
>-gtk-gradient CSS is gone in GTK4, we only use it for Combo on GTK3.12
>and below
>
>-removal of non-Cairo setRegion() drawing as this is 3.8 and below
>
>-removal of pre-GTK3.10 DnD logic
>
>-removal of miscellaneous functions such as: GtkWidget opacity,
>GtkScrolledWindow add_with_viewport, etc.
>
>-removal of several pre-GTK3.14 Table/Tree drawing hacks
>
>-greatly allows for simplification of Cairo drawing in GC, as many of
>these operations are guarded with GTK3.14+ calls
>
>-allows SWT to rely solely on GTK CSS theme parsing, no more
>GtkStyleContext lookups to get system colours
>
>
>In summary, these changes would really simplify the codebase as almost
>all the items mentioned above are gone in GTK4. With the introduction
>of
>GTK4 guards it would be really beneficial if we could start to
>eliminate
>the GTK3 specific version guards. Furthermore, it is very hard to find
>a
>modern (supported) Linux distribution that ships with anything less
>than
>GTK3.14 anymore, and the disconnect between the 3.14- and 3.24
>methodologies is quite large.
>
>If anyone has any concerns, please raise them.
>
>Thanks,
--
Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov
http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
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