Topics for the GLib/GTK BoF at Guadec 2020

• GTK4 readiness
  • Unfinished tasks
    • a11y api
    • device cleanup
    • OS X backend
    • File chooser port ?
    • Review of new apis
  • Pushed off
    • Animation api
  • Dependencies
    • Need a cairo release for subpixel positioning
    • Some unmerged GLib changes would be nice (interface binding, standard::file)
  • Reverse dependencies
    • gtkwebkit
    • gtksourceview
    • vte
    • libhandy
    • libgweather
    • ...
  • Other: docs, demos...
• 3.99
  • to be done as soon as a11y lands
  • will have a "port and try now!" post
  • plan to do at least 1 or 2 snapshots between 3.99 and 4.0
• Post 4.0 plans
  • Animation api ?
  • Killing cell renderers ?
  • Killing style contexts ?
  • css optimizations (unboxing, etc...)
  • Do some of our list models belong into glib ? (The answer seems no)
  • Thread all the things, immutable data structures
  • Bring in libhandy things
• GLib topics

  • do we want to do gint -> int style cleanups ?

  • can't fix gboolean, although gboolean -> int would be possible, and we can have a g_param_spec_bool

  • GUri: regressions, scope, API and go/no-go before API freeze

    • Vs https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/URLParser.h and https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WTF/wtf/URL.h#L225

  • Features needed for GTK 4

  • g_file_set_contents() atomicity (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/369)

  • Project governance/maintenance/new contributors discussion