[Oneiric-Topic] GTK3/GNOME3

[Martin Pitt]

Hello all,

kind of obvious topic, but next cycle we'll need to move to GTK3 and
GNOME3. Aside from the obvious "update the package versions", I see
the following particular challenges:

 * Review our patches, and be rather aggressive about removing those
   which are intrusive and which we have carried for ages without
   upstream acceptance. Of course there are also still patches which
   we haven't even proposed upstream, these should be discussed in
   bugzilla.gnome.org.

 * Port pygtk2 apps to PyGI with GTK3. The biggest ones are
   ubiquity and software-center, but there is also quite a long tail
   of smaller upstream software.

 * Discuss GTK3 theming with UX/design. Our current murrine based
   Humanity theme doesn't work with GTK3.

I expect that this will bind a lot of developer capacity next cycle,
but at the same time it's very important that we do this to not lose
track with GNOME.

Martin
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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