[Lazarus] Suggestion: Remove GTK1 support from IDE and LCL.

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:52:04AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > will be much better and GTK2 is already replaced with something better, so you
> > can skip it. :-)
> 
> Hopefully Lazarus would have reached v1.0 by then. :-)
> 
> What I find strange though is that GTK2 is now at 2.30 (I think), yet
> Lazarus developers (and users) are still talking about *not* bumping
> the lowest supported GTK2 from 2.6 (I think) to something newer.
> 
> 2.6 -> 2.30 is a lifetime apart! Surely it's time Lazarus starts
> taking advantage of GTK2 features that have appear in the last 5+
> years of GTK2 development? LCL-Qt was very quickly bumped from Qt v3
> to Qt v4, so why not GTK2?

The trouble is that many stable and enterprise distributions are simply old.
These versions are still being deployed.