changeset 24552:48830eeb348b

NEWS: Announce prioritization of Qt toolkit over FLTK toolkit for further development. * NEWS: Announce prioritization of Qt toolkit over FLTK toolkit for further development.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:20:02 -0800
parents a7b6502b5cb5
children cd42d0f341db
files NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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.