[Geany] RFC: Bumping minimum GTK requirement to GTK 2.8

[Andy Elvey]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:20:02 +0100, Filip Gruszczyn'ski
> <gruszczy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Great :) I can't wait to see new functionality provided by 2.8 :)
>>     
>
> I'm afraid you won't see new features directly because of this
> change. At least the step between GTK 2.6 and GTK 2.8 is basically just
> to clean up some code and remove some #ifdef's for conditional
> compilation depending on the GTK version.
>
> Anyway, when we reach a bigger step there could be actually be new
> features and more code cleanups.
> E.g. when we step to GTK 2.10 we could use the GTK-based recent files
> implementation (though this doesn't change much for the user, it would
> be great for the sources as we could remove a lot of code, the user
> would had the benefit from having a recent files list shared with
> other GTK apps).
>
> When starting dreaming, we could even require GTK 2.12 which then
> brings us something called "GtkUIBuilder" which allows more dynamic and
> flexible creation of the user interface which would ease development
> and possible make new features possible. We could also actually work
> towards compatibility with the upcoming GTK 3.0.
> And there are probably other cool things I don't think of right now.
> But well, until we can require GTK 2.12, we probably still have to wait
> a long time...and it's not the biggest problem at all.
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
I'm completely in agreement with bumping the GTK requirement to 2.8. I'd 
really prefer 2.12 myself, but 2.8 is at least a good start.

It's hard to believe that anyone is still using 2.6! That is *ancient* 
now (in computer terms...).
- Andy