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Re: Popovers in GTK

 

Not sure if apps need to be updated to take advantage of the new fallbacks, but I don't even know what's going on there. Cheers,

Daniel Foré
elementaryos.org

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Raphael Isemann <teemperor@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> When 3.12 really fixes the headerbar problem with the global menu (see [1])
> then i'm 100% in favor of GTK+ 3.12.
> - Raphael
> [1] http://imgur.com/9d7HF4q
> Am 23.01.2014 16:33 schrieb "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hey Cody,
>>
>> Yes those are entirely theme related and fixable. My only hesitation is
>> introducing fixes for 3.12 that may break 3.10 unless we're sure we're
>> targeting 3.12
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Daniel Foré
>> elementaryos.org
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> I've been using the PPA for a while and the only bugs I've observed are
>>> theme related like ugly notebooks and boxes around headerbar close and
>>> maximize buttons. At least I assume those are theme related.
>>>
>>> I don't know if you've mentioned it before, but another benefit of 3.12
>>> is headerbars can have more than just the close button.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 8:54 AM, "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hey dudes,
>>>
>>> As you may know, popovers have landed in GTK!
>>> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/22/and-now-popovers/
>>>
>>> AFAIK, this means they will be available in GTK 3.12, which is imo yet
>>> another reason to reach for GTK 3.12 by default in Isis. If I understand
>>> correctly, the gnome team staging PPA for 14.04 is being set up such that
>>> we should be able to get packages for 3.12
>>>
>>> This would imply another deprecated widget in Granite since the GTK
>>> widget should be able to do everything that our widget does and hopefully
>>> doesn't have the quirky bugs that our widget has.
>>>
>>> So, basically I think we should probably make a decision about whether we
>>> intend to ship GTK 3.12 in Isis or not.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> elementaryos.org
>>>
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