Re: Build System

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Niklas Andersson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
>  I guess we have a couple of hundred users on Pidgin 3 and there are no
> other complaints than the notification system is pretty much broken in 3.0
> on Ubuntu. Besides that Pidgin 3 works pretty darn well for our users.

Don't get me wrong, it works well.  Like I said I use it every day.
That said there's a bunch of little things that I run into every day.
Here's a few.

Paste a large piece of text into the input windows for a message, send
the message, and notice that the input box stays huge.

Sounds when available works correctly when you go away, but if you go
away on idle, you still get sounds.

There's a few more I have noted, but I haven't put them in trac yet
due to the unknown future of our trac.  There's been a lot of
discussion about moving away from it.

> But I guess we might be a corner case here. I know that lots of users in
> other companies are just using 2.x.y as you say.
>
> Would you know if the 3.0 release blockers are cleaned up? Is there a
> authoritative list I perhaps could point some of our developers to and have
> a look and see if they can contribute with something?

The release blockers are really that the API is in VERY bad shape.  It
works, but I don't want to cut a 3.0.0 on it.  There's a lot of room
for improvement, but I'm trying to focus on the big API breakage stuff
first.  For example, there's a bunch of stuff that should have been
turned into GObjects that isn't yet.  We can't do that in a minor
version.

Aside from that, there are some key things that need to be figured out
yet, like are we going to keep using Webkit for the chat interface and
if we do do we have to move to GtkWebkit2 which completely changes the
way you modify the DOM and has no win32 support right now.

I'll try to spend some time this next week getting a ultimate TODO
list together.

> Regards,
>
> Niklas

Thanks,

--
Gary Kramlich <[email protected]>

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