Re: Bug#992870: transition: GNOME 40 (libmutter-8-0 and friends)
On Sun, 05 Sep 2021 at 23:56:23 +0000, Paul Flaherty wrote:
> I am wondering if we can do a transition on gnome web
I think you are misunderstanding what is being tracked in #992870.
GNOME Web in Debian is the epiphany-browser package, which is already
at version 40 in testing/unstable.
> and also what other
> applications have been transitioned over to gnome 40 and GTK 4
The transition-tracking bug #992870 is about updating core components
of the GNOME desktop itself, in Debian testing/unstable. It is not about
individual applications.
Individual applications are not generally "transitioned over to gnome 40".
GNOME 40 versions of several applications are already in testing/unstable.
Some others are not yet available because they are blocked by separate
library transitions for libgweather and evolution-data-server, but those
are not part of the transition discussed in #992870.
Individual applications can switch from GTK 3 to GTK 4 without needing
coordination with the release team. This requires considerable changes
to happen in each application upstream, and will often take months or
years (some applications still use GTK 2). It does not have to happen
all at once: we can have a mixture of GTK 2, 3 and 4 applications if
necessary.
The only reason why GTK 4 was required for gnome-shell 40 is that one of
the few applications that is already using GTK 4 is gnome-extensions-app,
in the gnome-shell-extension-prefs package.
smcv
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