Please switch to GTK 3

[tillea]

Hi,
Debian will drop GTK 2 at some point in time. It would be great if amide could switch to GTK 3 to let us continue distributing amide in Debian.
Kind regards, Andreas.

[stingray18]

Hi, I would be interested to look into this.

[ferdymercury]

Thanks for the help. I have added you as collaborator. Feel free to provide a PR, I am happy to test/review

[orowith2os]

A long term solution to using out of date dependencies could be solved by using flatpak to distribute, I can give it a look and see if anything needs to be done on upstream's side to get it to work properly in a sandbox.

[tillea]

Am Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 01:45:05PM -0800 schrieb Oro:

A long term solution to using out of date dependencies could be solved by using flatpak to distribute, I can give it a look and see if anything needs to be done on upstream's side to get it to work properly in a sandbox.

This might be a solution for users but not for the Debian distribution since we do provide compiled packages against existing libraries, not any containers. Kind regards, Andreas.

[stingray18]

Hi,
quick question. For tracking progress and backup up my changes, do you want me to fork the this repo or should I work on a branch inside of this repo (not even sure if github allows that for me). I've seen both things happen, just wanted to confirm.

[ferdymercury]

It's usually better to work on a fork if you do not have too much experience with git, but a branch inside this repo is also fine ;) Thanks!

[desiderantes]

So, this is actually a big thing, because there's a lot of stuff to do:

• Migrate from gnomecanvas to goocanvas
• The entirety of the GTK 2 to 3 change, for which there's some help documented
• Migrate from GConf to GSettings
• Prepare for the GTK 4 migration by just getting everything ready regarding deprecations

Some changes like the GConf deprecation are required if we want to explore other distribution formats like Flatpak.

At this point in time, Migrating from GTK 2 to 3 might be as involved as directly going to GTK 4, so we might also want to treat the 3 target as an intermediate target and not an end by itself.

[tillea]

Am Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 08:58:48PM -0700 schrieb Mario Daniel Ruiz Saavedra:

So, this is actually a big thing, because there's a lot of stuff to do:

Definitely.

At this point in time, Migrating from GTK 2 to 3 might be as involved as directly going to GTK 4, so we might also want to treat the 3 target as an intermediate target and not an end by itself.

Fine for me. Andreas.