El 19/09/18 a las 14:56, aitor_czr escribió:
>
> Hi Hendrik,
>
> El 18/09/18 a las 15:23, Hendrik Boom escribió:
>> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:17:26AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
>>> I spent a lot of time downgrading the frontend from Gtk3 to Gtk2, because of
>>> the general preference in favor of this second one. The packages for jessie
>>> will be available in a couple of days.
>> You seem to have experience with both gtk2 and gtk3. And just*might*
>> be able to answer the following.
>>
>> Years ago I discovered the hard way (with a*huge* scrolling region)
>> that gtk2 restricted pixel counts to 16 bits.
>>
>> Is this restriction still there?
>> Did they alleviate it with gtk3?
>>
>> -- hendrik
>
> Here you are the overview of changes in different versions of Gtk:
>
> https://fossies.org/linux/gtk+/NEWS
>
> The best new I can say about Gtk3 is the fact that Gtk-3.22 will be
> LTS, while they continue working on
> other versions and breaking APIs with a view to Gtk4. This pattern
> will be repeated in future versions,
> in other words, a concrete version of Gtk4 will be declared LTS while
> they continue playing and breaking compatibilities.
>
> Personally, I'll try to mantain my projects compatible with both
> Gtk-2.4 and Gtk-3.22 whenever possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aitor.

More info here:

https://blog.gtk.org/2016/09/01/versioning-and-long-term-stability-promise-in-gtk/

Aitor.