How to migrate code from libraries that will not be included in GNOME 3 anymore

In general: For overall status and links to the bug reports see the status overview page.

Deprecated libraries

• esound

  • Replaced by libcanberra

• HAL

  • Replaced by DeviceKit-*

• libart_lgpl
• libbonobo(ui)

  • Replaced by D-Bus

  • Tracker bug

  • For the accessiblity (a11y) side see BonoboDeprecation wikipage. Plans are to replace at-spi (by at-spi2), gnome-speech (by speech-dispatcher) and maybe gnome-mag (replaced by a potential magnifier in gnome-shell?)

• libglade

  • Migration instructions

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

• libgnome(ui)

  • Wikipage

• libgnomecanvas

  • See fixed modules (Anjuta, GtkHtml, Zenity) and especially the discussion in the bug report for Evolution

• libgnomeprint(ui)

  • Replaced by GtkPrint

  • Wikipage

• libgnomevfs

  • Replaced by Gio

  • Migration instructions

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

Other deprecated functionality

• Replace deprecated GTK+ symbols

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

• Replace deprecated Glib symbols

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

• Use accessor functions instead of direct access (GSeal)

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

  • requires the GTK+ team to add missing functions: See bug 588339

• Remove non-top-level GTK/Glib includes

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

• Replace LibSexy library with GTK+ functionalities

  • Wikipage

  • Tracker bug

Nice to have

• Introspection support

  • Tracker bug

• Add Nicer Builds

  • Wikipage