Proposal for Save As.../Open dialog

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Dec 16 11:01:11 EST 2009


Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>> I quickly verified on distrowatch as well. None of the distributions we
>> "support" (Ubuntu, openSuse, Fedora,...) still has support for 2.6. All of
>> them abandoned 2.6 somewhere in 2005. This means
>> a) it is already hard for us to test the GnuCash dialogs actually running
>>  in a gtk+2.6 environment
>> b) someone that is still running a gtk+2.6  based distribution shows a
>>  rather conservative attitude towards software updates, so I would doubt
>>  this person would be interested in migrating to GnuCash 2.4.x. Remember
>>  that when gtk+2.6 was actual, GnuCash was still 1.8.x !
>
> Agreed to both points. Thanks for looking up the distros. Indeed the question 
> whether we can actually test the gtk 2.6 version is critical here, so I agree 
> with your decision.

Works for me.  Looks like EL5 has Gtk 2.10, so I think it's safe to
use that if you don't want to stick to 2.8.

> Thanks,
>
> Christian

-derek

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