Re: Build System
Niklas Andersson <[email protected]>
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Sounds great! Thanks a lot Gary. I understand that the API-breakage is a deal breaker here.. Thanks for all your efforts! Regards, Niklas On 19/08/16 20:48, Gary Kramlich wrote: > 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]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel