[virt-tools-list] RFC: drop virt-viewer support for GTK-2 and use GTK-3 features

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 12:50:15PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:29:33AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Currently the virt-viewer codebase is written to build with both GTK-2
> > and GTK-3. This was primarily so that we could continue to support use
> > of virt-viewer on older distros like RHEL-6 which lack GTK-3 support.
> > GTK-3 has been around for 3 years now and RHEL-7 with GTK-3 support is
> > not unreasonably far off in the future.
> 
> I think that's a great idea!
> 
> > So I'm thinking it could be a good time for us to drop support for
> > GTK-2, and actually make use of some of the more interesting GTK-3
> > features we've been holding back on.  In particular I think we should
> > make use of the application menus in the GNOME shell top bar, and/or
> > the new GTK design whereby apps have a drop down menu in their window
> > titlebar. This would let us kill the current menu bar free'ing up
> > more
> 
> Besides of "help" this would probably be the window title bar
> (GtkHeaderBar) since the actions are per window/wm (like attaching a
> USB device).

Oh and it also means we'd be able to depend on GSettings to store
preferences, and not have to have two codepaths for GConf vs GSettings

Regards,
Daniel
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