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On 12/02/14 01:51, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> USE="gtk3" is valid only for libraries when it's not easy to |
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>> split/slot as a temporary flag. Applications should simply pick one, |
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>> the latest one that works, since anything else is obviously |
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>> redudant. |
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> I don't see why applications should be treated differently from |
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> libraries. If a program supports more than one toolkit, then the |
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> choice should be left to the user. Nothing redundant there. |
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> Ulrich |
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For libraries it's forced, like eg. libcanberra's gtk3 version for GNOME |
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and gtk2 |
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version for Xfce due to direct use of NEEDED, headers, pkg-config etc. |
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But applications is whole different story... |
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The maintainer makes the decision which toolkit is used and best supported. |
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If some application has initial port to gtk3, but still lacks some |
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features the gtk2 |
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version still had, then maintainer makes the smart choice of using the |
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version |
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that has all the features, if the maintainer deems those features important. |
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There is no point in having them in parallel, it only increases the |
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workload, |
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making maintainer do double-testing of the application, not to mention the |
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work it causes later when gtk2 is slated obsolete as gtk1 is now |
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Sometimes I think people have already forgotten the mess we had during the |
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gnome1 removal times with USE="gtk2" :-( |
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- Samuli |
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