GTK+ 3.24 To Deliver Some New Features While Waiting For GTK4

[cybertraveler]

cybertraveler I asked in the comments of the blog article. It seams that it is backwards compatible. https://blog.gtk.org/2018/06/23/a-gtk-3-update/

Thank you very much This is good to hear.

[R41N3R]

Hopefully by that release they will fix the no window boarder bug that is visible on Plasma on Wayland since months. Very annoying.

[re:fi.64]

ramnasko FWIW I couldn't find anything on it either, but in general, many decisions are discussed on the IRC channel (#gtk+ on GIMPNet).

[ramnasko]

re:fi.64

same idea came to me also on second thought. i think that's definitely a reason to use mailing list over IRC i think. There is no history which is easy to access via wer search. is there a history at all on irc?

[Vistaus]

The "Gnome4" that keeps being brought up is not a thing. It's not being worked on, there are no plans.

It was the title of a personal Wiki page by one developer who was describing some of the current architectural hurdles that would likely necessitate breaking backwards compatibility to implement. At best it was an apropos, tongue-in-cheek title and that's all.

Plus they are already revamping the workflow of GNOME anyway with 3.30, given the fact that App Menus will no longer be on the top panel: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteb...pMenuMigration

[cybertraveler]

Plus they are already revamping the workflow of GNOME anyway with 3.30, given the fact that App Menus will no longer be on the top panel: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteb...pMenuMigration

I like this. The App Menus always seemed odd and out of place to me. They dangled themselves away from the app and seemed like an inferior version of the OS X top bar menus. I think the hamburger menus have now become a familiar UX feature and thus will be more familiar and intuitive for new users to find and operate. It gracefully translates from desktop to mobile too so it's better for convergent apps.