I might be a bit out of context, but I think the ability of running against GTK3 brings new possibilities for plugin developers. Basically, JavaFx components like WebView can be embedded into Swing / AWT / SWT via FXCanvas[1] and JFXpanels. Several years ago we investigated potential rewriting of VPE to JavaFx. It was dropped due to the fact, that at this time it was not possible to run against GTK3. However, even if we would like to use JavaFx for some plugins (i.e rewrite VPE / Central for using WebView insted of SWT Browser), shipping openfx bits will be required (or using OSGI hook similar to e(fx)clipse for loading javaFx libs from Oracle JDK - not an option for us actually / or shipping own JDK with openfx included). One of the true benefits of using JavaFx is resolving well know WebKit / Xulrunner conflict on Linux [2], which have popped up again recently [3]. 


[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/embed/swt/FXCanvas.html
[2] https://github.com/ibuziuk/webkit-xulrunner-conflict
[3] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-22288 

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse@redhat.com> wrote:

Doug gave up on SWT/JFX port - so I would consider that venue dead.

/max

I dont think so. For this to be viable we'd need an implementation of SWT based on JavaFX. There was an effort some time ago, that got traction at first and stalled when they afair discovered incompatible disparities btw. SWT and JavaFX (was it the event loop et all?).

https://cdtdoug.ca/2014/03/02/an-swt-free-workbench/

Their loose plan now is to migrate the IDE to JavaFX leaving SWT alone (but dont expect this to be successful any time soon, it's a huge task. And then who would migrate existing plugins?)
On 05/11/2016 08:09 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
Hi all,

Can this piece of news http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2016-May/019100.html help us to remove complexity dealing with multiple GTK versions?

Cheers
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