# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <rik@octave.org>
# Date 1515388802 28800
# Node ID 48830eeb348b9addca2a48515d5d68247e75e8f6
# Parent  a7b6502b5cb5a70f9561f74fb2566f8cd8e70a53
NEWS: Announce prioritization of Qt toolkit over FLTK toolkit for further development.

* NEWS: Announce prioritization of Qt toolkit over FLTK toolkit for further
development.

diff -r a7b6502b5cb5 -r 48830eeb348b NEWS
--- a/NEWS	Sun Jan 07 21:11:39 2018 -0800
+++ b/NEWS	Sun Jan 07 21:20:02 2018 -0800
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@
     explicitly instructed to perform an economy factorization by using a
     final argument of 0.
 
+ ** The FLTK toolkit is no longer prioritized for development.  The
+    number of Octave Maintainers is too small to support three different
+    graphic toolkits.  New development will target the Qt toolkit.
+    While no longer prioritized, the FLTK toolkit is not deprecated and
+    there is no schedule for its removal.
+
  ** The graphic object property "PickableParts" has been implemented
     which controls whether an object can accept mouse clicks.