Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GTK+ & HTML5 broadway
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:41:28
Message-Id: 1317760774.4111.4.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] GTK+ & HTML5 broadway by Michal Sroka
1 On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:39 +0200, Michal Sroka wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 > I would like to run my gtk applications over web-browser using Alexander Larsson's gtk+ broadway option http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/ <http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/>
4 > 1 Have you got any experience with this on gentast
5
6 Currently it doesn't work, at least not with libcanberra. There is a
7 but in canberra that causes the app to segfault when using the broadway
8 backend.
9
10 > 2 How can I specify, if to run my application (e.g. gnome-calculator) over gtk+ 3 or my stable gtk+ version?
11
12 If I understand you correctly, it doesn't work that way. You can't,
13 just magically turn a gtk2 app into a gtk3 app. The APIs are different
14 so the app has to be writen for the gtk3 API.
15
16 > 3 I can't see any "enable-broadway" option in gtk+ portage install options. Do I have to compile gtk+ 3 from source?
17
18 You can use EXTRA_ECONF but, again, it doesn't currently work anyway.