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Jack wrote: |
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> On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Saturday, 28 January 2023 09:17:35 GMT Michael wrote: |
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>>> Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly |
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>>> asking for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep it running. |
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>> I too am finding it hard to imagine life without gkrellm. I think it |
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>> needs more |
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>> than just a maintainer though - it needs a replacement for upstream |
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>> as well. |
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> I"m actually the one who first heard that the original maintainer had |
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> died. (I had written to him about some support issue, and got a |
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> belated reply from his brother.) Upstream is not dead at all, the |
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> activity level is just fairly low. I tried to post to -dev, but my |
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> message never got through, not sure if it's because I'm not a dev or I |
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> made some other error in sending. The homepage is at |
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> htttps://gkrellm.srcbox.net with source at |
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> https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm. |
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> The main problem is that is still uses gtk+2. They do have an open |
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> issue about that, but most of the discussion has been on why it would |
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> be so hard to upgrade. There is apparently a lot of fairly low-level |
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> graphics stuff going on, and Bill himself (the original maintainer) |
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> said something like the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult, but to |
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> go to gtk+4 (I have no idea how far off this is) would essentially be |
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> a re-write. |
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> |
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> Jack |
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So whoever takes it over will have some serious work to do in the short |
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term and even more work in the future. I hope upstream is able to keep |
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gkrellm alive. It sounds like quite a task. |
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I'm glad to hear that upstream is still alive, even if moving slowly. |
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Maybe they working on a rewrite but not saying anything publicly. Hey, |
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if we gonna hope, hope big. ;-) |
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Thanks for this info. Maybe there is hope. I just hope they cancel the |
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last rites too. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P.S. They did last rites on Gnome mplayer ages ago. I still have the |
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thing installed and use it quite often. I use smplayer for watching on |
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my TV but use Gnome player to watch something on my puter monitor, |
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usually something short. Even tho it is removed from the tree, it still |
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works. Every once in a while I run up on a new video with some encoding |
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Gnome mplayer doesn't support. I use QMplayer2 as a backup. I guess |
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gkrellm would work for a while if it was removed. It may even compile |
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for a while to, for those who put a ebuild in a local overlay to install. |
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