Sugar and GTK updates

[Daniel Drake]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I understand that a move to GTK3 would eventually mean less bloat, i
> did not realize,  from what I now infer here,  that also keeping the GTK2
> functionality concurrent on the machine would still have savings. Again,
> good news.

You are right on that point - having concurrent GTK3 + GTK2 support in
Sugar will be an overhead, particularly while some running parts of
Sugar are GTK2 and others are GTK3. It will mean that both library
versions are installed and loaded into memory. But this will be
temporary, and is not a huge overhead.

Even so, there are 2 justifications for this temporary overhead:

1. It's the path to a smaller/faster/better system, so we should take
it (and work to keep the concurrency period short)

2. And more importantly... We don't have a choice! Sugar is already
significantly broken. If you go beyond F14 you have no Read and no
Browse. We have no upstream support for key parts of our underlying
system. This situation will get worse and worse, more and more things
will break, and the transition will become more and more painful the
longer we wait.

Daniel