Removing gtk2 support

[Gregor Schmid]

>From my experience there are always people stuck on old systems with
the weirdest configurations. One wouldn't expect them to use JavaFX 21
upwards, however they often need to combine their
very-old-and-unsupported-for-years legacy stuff with some other
lets-use-the-latest-and-greatest application that their devs just came
up with.

I think the question is whether there is - or you would want to
implement - a clear policy defining the minimum requirements for
JavaFX version <x>. E.g. for Linux: Official distributions going back
<n> years from a Java/JavaFX LTS release. With that in place it is
relatively easy to answer these kinds of questions. It's also easier
for developers to anticipate what's likely to get dropped from JavaFX
and when.

That said, I think we could use such a policy ourselves... ;-)

Best regards,
    Greg

Johan Vos <johan.vos at gluonhq.com> writes:

> I think it is absolutely worth considering that.
> I actually thought we already had an issue for discussing this, but I seem
> to be unable to do search queries on JBS atm.
>
> I can't think about configurations that are stuck on GTK2 and that are
> still relevant today, but it would be good to get input from others in case
> such configurations are still in use.
>
> - Johan
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:30 PM Thiago Milczarek Sayão <
> thiago.sayao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Would a merge request to remove gtk2 support on the JavaFX 21 release be
>> welcome?
>>
>> --Thiago.
>>
>>
>>

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