Use GTK3 instead of GTK2.

[amerkoleci]

As title say, use GTK3 instead of GTK2, MonoDevelop started using GTK3 along with Mono Xwt.

[grokys]

As you've probably seen, I know almost nothing about GTK - this was my first use of it.

I used GTK2 because gtk-sharp uses GTK2 - could you point me to documentation that explains how to get started in GTK3 with .Net?

Is GTK3 available on Windows? Because it's nice to be able to check changes against GTK without having to boot into Linux...

[amerkoleci]

You can download gtk sharp 3 with gtk3 support for windows, i can gladly help out here

[amerkoleci]

Most of the samples in gtk sharp github page are converted to gtk3, you can look at mono gtk3 site to see what changes

[grokys]

At the moment I'm mainly trying to get the basic controls working (on Direct2D) - Gtk/Cairo/Pango are currently a secondary concern and done mainly as a proof of concept at this point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 👍 Especially as my Gtk/Cairo skills are sorely lacking!

(p.s. Please join our gitter room at https://gitter.im/grokys/Perspex if you're interested in helping)

[amerkoleci]

Joined, we can try to make Perspex cross platform UI library and why not try to do this, I can do some initial GTK3 upgrade support and report pulling request.

[danwalmsley]

As per recent pr from @kekekes there is now a gtk3 backend.