Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:25:58AM +1100, Andrew Hood wrote:
>
>> Does this mean that those of us who have no choice but to run GTK1
>> versions because Remote Desktop can only be relied on to supply 8 bit
>> colour will stop getting security related fixes?
>
> I certainly wouldn't want that to happen.
The plan is to backport security and major bug fixes to the 1.0 trunk at
least until the next stable release. That's why there's a "trunk" and
"trunk-1.0" in the SVN root.
>> Or will the GTK people finally get off their backsides and fix it?
>
> The GTK+ bug hasn't had activity in a while
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438652) unfortunately. I'm
> sure they would move faster if someone helped them track down what
> changed between GTK+ 2.10 and a previous version that didn't have this
> problem. Remember that they work for free like us, so motivation and
> time limits how fast things get fixed (especially since they have tons
> of bugs open).
I've pinged the bug.
