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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: firefox gtk3 status, danger of gtk2 in-tree deprecation?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:32:55
Message-Id: 55F05107.9000004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: firefox gtk3 status, danger of gtk2 in-tree deprecation? (was: www-client/chromium gtk3 support) by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
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4 On 09/09/15 06:06 AM, Duncan wrote:
5 > Paweł Hajdan, Jr. posted on Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:20:13 +0200 as
6 > excerpted:
7 >
8 >> A user asked for optional gtk3 support in www-client/chromium:
9 >> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559378>
10 >
11 > Talking about browsers and gtk3, I read that binary distros are
12 > starting to ship firefox built against gtk3, now.
13 >
14 > And with that happened, they'll likely be eager to deprecate
15 > gtk2, as I think firefox was the big hold-out making that
16 > impractical.
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19 Firefox's use of gtk3 actually still requires gtk2, so gtk2 won't be
20 deprecated (at least not any time soon).
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22 Also, FYI, since gtk2 will (for the forseeable future) always be
23 required by the firefox core, we are going to add a gtk3 flag to
24 provide end-user control of building the frontend against gtk3 or not.
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26 I don't think deprecation of gtk2 is anything we are going to need
27 to worry about any time soon.
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