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Ian Stakenvicius posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:32:23 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> Firefox's use of gtk3 actually still requires gtk2, so gtk2 won't be |
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> deprecated (at least not any time soon). |
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I was entirely unaware of that. Thanks. It changes the picture |
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dramatically. |
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> Also, FYI, since gtk2 will (for the forseeable future) always be |
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> required by the firefox core, we are going to add a gtk3 flag to provide |
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> end-user control of building the frontend against gtk3 or not. |
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> I don't think deprecation of gtk2 is anything we are going to need to |
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> worry about any time soon. |
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Thanks. As I said, firefox-core still requiring gtk2 changes the picture |
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dramatically, both for gentoo, and as part of pan upstream, for it as |
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well. |
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FWIW, there's still some of us that remember the gtk1 based xmms with |
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fondness for its clean just-what-we-need interface and lack of extraneous |
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deps, while at the same time providing fancy visualization, etc. |
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Similarly, there's still those trying to use the kde-sunset overlay for a |
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kde3 app or two. Personally, I try to be on the (moderately) leading |
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edge rather than the trailing and was well off of both of these before |
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they disappeared from the tree, but that's why I'm asking these sorts of |
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questions (and why I follow this list, as well), giving me as long as |
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possible to prepare and try to find suitable replacements before I'm |
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under the gun. |
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As for pan upstream, I'm on record on the pan lists as saying that until |
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firefox switches to gtk3, there's not a lot to worry about regarding gtk2, |
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since firefox really is the big gtk2 elephant in the room and practically |
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speaking, gtk2 isn't going anywhere until firefox does, either by |
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switching to something else, or by becoming irrelevant. |
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With mentions of gtk3 based firefox now in distros and that being my |
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trigger of record, I was starting to worry about pan on gtk3. But if |
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firefox still requires gtk2 at its core, the trigger doesn't look to have |
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actually been pulled, after all. That really /does/ change the picture, |
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so... |
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Thanks again! =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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