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by vetinari 3440 days ago
> minor releases of a supposedly stable branch included backwards-incompatible changes that broke applications and themes.

No, the releases broke only themes and exactly that was communicated - that the CSS engine was work in progress and that themes were going to be broken.

Those, who didn't want to listen complained afterwards. Color me surprised.
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notalaser 3440 days ago
Just from memory, changes in the way GTK handles geometry hints broke stuff in a bunch of applications, such as ROX Terminal. I think that was in 3.20. I haven't really followed development after 3.16 or so, I try to avoid GTK 3 applications when I can.

The decision to include "work in progress" code in stable releases is also a little questionable.

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