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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostThere are a lot of misleading info out there. You don't have to trust everything you hear. Among libraries in Linux, GNOME libraries are well known for having a strong ABI policy and parallel installable libraries when they do make ABI changes in major releases. This includes GTK, Gstreamer etc.
So yes, the individual parts of Gnome have an ABI policy they follow, but the desktop environment as a whole does not, because each part of it can do new, major, ABI-incompatible versions whenever they want.
Compare this to, say, KDE, where an application compiled for KDE SC 4.0 should work with KDE SC 4.11, because there is a single ABI compatibility policy for everything.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI know that, but it's likely what the poster was referring to. And it is breaking compatibility, just not the parts you care about.
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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostTheming is just a desktop thing and for GNOME Shell, only supported via an extension. I was only referring to the ABI of the libraries. That's the thing most applications care about.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostThat's not what I have heard.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostI don't think the new GNOME theming is kept compatible between releases yet. Someone was on here recently complaining about that. Most of the GNOME libraries certainly are.
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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostThere are a lot of misleading info out there. You don't have to trust everything you hear. Among libraries in Linux, GNOME libraries are well known for having a strong ABI policy and parallel installable libraries when they do make ABI changes in major releases. This includes GTK, Gstreamer etc.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostThat's not what I have heard.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostGood thing Wayland isn't developed by the GNOME team then...
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