So we are in Berlin now with a good amount of people for the hackfest. The apartments are nice, the wireless is working out fine so far and there are plenty of snacks and beer. Though we seem to have run out of beer already, but I heard rumors it's going to be fixed soon ;) One problem is though that the weather outside is too nice to actually sit inside all day and hack. However, it looks like this is going to change Tuesday/Wednesday. This morning we started with presentations after we finished transforming one of the living rooms into a “theatre”. Everybody just fit in the room and it's a pretty funny sight :) I had the honor of starting off the presentations track this morning. I think a lot of people have actually been thinking about the future of GTK+; what new features to add and how to move forward. We hope to have a lot of discussions about all these ideas everybody has. At Imendio we've also been thinking about where we want to go with GTK+. We presented our “vision” on GTK+ during this mornings presentation; my slides can be found here. We hope to have more discussions about this this week. Later on we will post a document with a more elaborate description of these ideas. As for hacking, I was recently inspired by dom's and arc's GDI pixbuf loader. For this week I've decided to do something similar for Mac OS X. The CoreGraphics framework has an ImageIO library with loading and saving support for a lot of image formats. I hope to get a pixbuf loader using this running during the hackweek. It will greatly simplify the build process for GTK+ on the Mac as well as shipping applications.
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your plan is pretty much the same I imagined how gtk3 should look like. Although I would probably also consider to directly switch to another programming language. GObject is a C zombie kept alive with many patches. If you rewrite it anyway, you can do it directly in Vala or D. (I would prefer the latter, since I do not like meta-compilers)