Re: [gentoo-user] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:08:04 GMT Jack wrote:
> On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 28 January 2023 09:17:35 GMT Michael wrote:
> >> Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly
> >> asking for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep it running.
> >
> > I too am finding it hard to imagine life without gkrellm. I think it needs
> > more than just a maintainer though - it needs a replacement for upstream
> > as well.
> I"m actually the one who first heard that the original maintainer had
> died.  (I had written to him about some support issue, and got a belated
> reply from his brother.)  Upstream is not dead at all, the activity
> level is just fairly low.  I tried to post to -dev, but my message never
> got through, not sure if it's because I'm not a dev or I made some other
> error in sending.  The homepage is at htttps://gkrellm.srcbox.net with
> source at https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm.

My mistake. It's so long since I heard anything that I thought it must have 
died with Bill.

> The main problem is that is still uses gtk+2.  They do have an open
> issue about that, but most of the discussion has been on why it would be
> so hard to upgrade.  There is apparently a lot of fairly low-level
> graphics stuff going on, and Bill himself (the original maintainer) said
> something like the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult, but to go to
> gtk+4 (I have no idea how far off this is) would essentially be a re-write.
>
> Jack


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Regards,
Peter.