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From: Peter Volkov Alexandrovich <torre_cremata@××××.ru>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:53:05
Message-Id: 1127119777.11027.40.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolution - GTK Useflag Situation by Chris White
1 Hello.
2
3 On Пнд, 2005-09-19 at 20:24 +0900, Chris White wrote:
4 > I think the problem here isn't about choice, but support. Mainly deprication
5 > is the issue here. GTK2 was meant to be an upgrade of GTK1 interfaces. At
6 > some point upstream is going to have to giveup and say "Sorry sam, use gtk2
7 > or we can't support you" (Who knows, maybe that's already happened).
8
9 This already happened.
10
11 I was forced to move from gtk+-1 when one day after xorg update all
12 russian letters in program's interface became unreadable. I've searched
13 mailing lists, forums but no solution there. Then I posted bug upstream
14 [1]. The answer was that gtk+-1 is unsupported...
15
16 Thus. The idea to keep linux small is very attractive, but gtk+-1
17 library is not the variant until somebody continues to support it.
18
19 Links:
20 [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169178
21
22 Peter.

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