[sane-devel] Frontend migration to gtk3

[Ralph Little]

Hi,

On 2022-05-01 11:13, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Why not migrate to GTK4 right away?
>
>    Till

I guess there are a number of reasons why I decided to go down that route:

1. At the time I started with the idea, GTK4 was very fresh.
2. xsane is the primary scanning application for wide range of systems. 
I wasn't convinced that GTK4 was mature (or available) for all of them, 
whereas GTK3 has been around for a long time.
3. Lack of time to look into yet another version of GTK given our scant 
developer resources. The move to Cairo for drawing exclusively is the 
biggest aspect which affects the Preview window principally. I think 
most of the other items have already been largely taken care of.

I don't think that I planned the move to GTK3 as part of the next 
release. Probably the one after.

Perhaps the only fairly major piece of functionality that I have 
remaining for that release is the CEGL stuff for GIMP plugin support.
The others are bugs and build system updates.

Cheers,
Ralph

>
> On Sun, 1 May 2022, 19:56 Ralph Little, <skelband at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 2022-05-01 01:29, theis wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I would also like to help in the migration of frontends to gtk3,
>     maybe starting with some cleanups of xsane for the new toolkit
>     version. I have done some first patches that allow to compile with
>     -DGSEAL_ENABLE.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Christian
>     >
>     >
>     That's great.
>     Would you like to contact me directly?
>
>     I have been doing some work on xsane but that has stalled a little
>     since
>     I have been working on the things.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Ralph
>
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