GTK BoF at Guadec 2021

Topics

* GTK 4:

• What is the 4.4 release date?
• Should we drop the "old" GL renderer?
• Whats the future of the Vulkan renderer?

• Can we merge the Compose file MR? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/3746

• GskPath - where to go with it?

• testing
  • CI fails too much
  • testsuite on MacOS/Windows
  • introspection testing, we have some python tests now. More would be nice
  • input testing
  • benchmarking/performance

* GTK 5: Is it time?

• What are goals, plans and expectations that people have for GTK5?
  • Treeview/Cell renderer removal
  • path objects/widgets
  • canvas / more flexible views
  • better data binding?
  • GSK/GDK merge

  • gdk_surface_set_renderer() instead of GdkDrawContext

  • GtkBuilder replacement. json?

  • Bindings vs expressions vs scripting

* GLib / gobject-introspection topics

• final types - it seems bindings happily ignore our attempts to make types final
• getter/setter annotations - having these would improve our story for validating gir data