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  • Please, please, strongly consider including GTK4.10 in bookworm in some

    From Zeke Williams@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 29 19:30:01 2023
    The GTK4.10 release was skimming off pretty close to the soft freeze
    when it was released. But this release is important because it fixes
    the blasted 20 year file chooser bug with icon view in the file
    chooser. And if you're on GNOME and are using
    xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, it uses GTK4 and that one (pre 4.10) doesn't
    even have a thumbnail preview to the right of the screen making it
    even worse of an experience. I only ask one of three possible things
    to do:
    - Backport the special fix from 4.10 to 4.8 (if 4.8 is the decided
    version to go with bookworm)
    - Upgrade 4.8 to 4.10 in testing.
    - Use bookworm-backports to have it possible to install GTK 4.10 in bookworm.

    I just ask you to put consideration into this, waiting the next 3
    years for GNOME and GTK to be a more tolerable experience is something
    that would be extremely unpleasant. GTK4.0-4.8 was even worse than
    GTK3, it's only tolerable in 4.10.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?=@21:1/5 to lakeleaf8@gmail.com on Thu Mar 30 02:00:01 2023
    On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 1:27 PM Zeke Williams <lakeleaf8@gmail.com> wrote:
    - Backport the special fix from 4.10 to 4.8 (if 4.8 is the decided
    version to go with bookworm)
    - Upgrade 4.8 to 4.10 in testing.
    - Use bookworm-backports to have it possible to install GTK 4.10 in bookworm.

    I just ask you to put consideration into this, waiting the next 3
    years for GNOME and GTK to be a more tolerable experience is something
    that would be extremely unpleasant. GTK4.0-4.8 was even worse than
    GTK3, it's only tolerable in 4.10.

    New Debian Stable releases happen every 2 years, not 3. There are
    always going to be things that don't make the deadline. GNOME 44 is
    better than GNOME 43 and GNOME 45 will be even better. Sorry.

    We have limited influence to ask the few and busy volunteers on the
    Debian Release team to approve big changes.

    It is not a small change to add the thumbnail feature to 4.8 and I
    don't think any existing Debian GNOME contributors have the extra time
    to work on this.

    Thank you,
    Jeremy Bícha

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