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Michał Górny wrote: |
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> # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (2023-01-27) |
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> # GKrellM and a variety of plugins. It's unmaintained for some time. |
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> # Upstream homepage is gone, and the whole suite is collecting dust |
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> # and patches. |
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> # Removal on 2023-02-26. Bug #892251. |
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> |
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> [also eclass/gkrellm-plugin.eclass] |
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> |
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> acct-group/gkrellmd |
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> acct-user/gkrellmd |
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> app-admin/gkrellm |
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> app-laptop/ibam |
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> media-plugins/gkrellmpc |
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> x11-plugins/bfm |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellaclock |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellfire |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellkam |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-bgchanger |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-bluez |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-countdown |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-cpupower |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-imonc |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellmlaunch |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-leds |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-mailwatch |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellmoon |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-plugins |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-radio |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellmss |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-trayicons |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-vaiobright |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-volume |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellmwireless |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellm-xkb |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellshoot |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellstock |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellsun |
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> x11-plugins/gkrelltop |
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> x11-plugins/gkrellweather |
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> x11-plugins/gkwebmon |
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> x11-plugins/i8krellm |
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> x11-themes/gkrellm-themes |
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> |
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I'm forwarding this from the gentoo-dev-announce mailing list. It's |
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also on -dev as well. It seems the guy who originally came up with and |
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maintained gkrellm sadly died a while back. From other replies I read |
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on -dev, there is some changes coming that may make gkrellm no longer |
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work. It has something to do with GTK-3 support. It's a bit over my |
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head to be honest. :/ |
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First, if someone can help keep this going, it seems to be available, if |
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the license allows someone else to take it over or fork it maybe. I |
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don't know code but I do use gkrellm and sure would miss it. I suspect |
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even a proxy maintainer would keep this alive. I have no idea how |
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complicated the code for this thing is. It may be easy, it may be |
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really advanced. |
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Second, if no one takes it over, what could be used in its place? I'll |
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be honest, I don't know of anything that could replace it but I've never |
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thought about looking either. I'm looking into app-admin category but |
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don't see anything obvious to replace it. I've tried some KDE plasma |
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stuff ages ago, I still prefer gkrellm. None of them I looked at comes |
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even close. |
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I'm sure I'm not the only one on this mailing list who uses gkrellm. |
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This is sort of a heads up. Someone already a dev may take it up, they |
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may not. Help may would save it. Either way, this is a notice of the |
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current state and if needed, a discussion on what we can use in its place. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |