On Dec 17, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Josh Andler wrote:
I say best because I don't know the status of the GTK3 advanced input devices support and because even if it were a better option, a number of our linux users will take serious issue with bumping the lib requirements that much. I hate to be a jerk, but this doesn't bother me all that much. I certainly won't lose any sleep over users who don't want to upgrade not being able to have the latest and greatest Inkscape. Before anyone makes an LTS/Enterprise argument, typically they want all software locked to the shipped versions, so I'm not buying it.
Unfortunately at the moment it's the OS X users who'd probably suffer the most from a GTK+3 transition.
But the good news is that in the last month or so things have finally picked back up on that front.
However... given many of the other things we have to clean up first, by the time we're ready to flip the switch we're probably looking at a good transition time.