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Re: managing 3 toolkits going forward

 

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Matthew McGowan wrote on 17/06/11 07:57:
>...
> So it's looking like we will have three GUIs in different toolkits
> being actively worked on.  Gtk2, Gtk3 & Qt/QML.  How are we going to
> manage code such that changes and improvements filter through the
> different GUI's/toolkits?
>...
> Currently in my gtk3 branch i have had to touch things like utils.py
> etc, which ideally should be toolkit agnostic but in reality rely on
> glib, gtk, gio etc.  Gobject introspection is a spanner in the works in
> the sense that it makes it difficult to provide a common base even for
> the Gtk versions of USC.
>...

Why would we be developing GTK2 and GTK3 interfaces in parallel? Is that
to avoid blocking feature development on finishing the GTK3 port, or what?

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