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

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:10 AM Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
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.
>
> 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
>

I don't know enough about Gentoo anymore but couldn't some
smart dev-type build the whole thing as a static package where
if you wanted to install it you just get the binary and run
it?

Or does it have so many dependencies that would be insane
to do that? There are a couple of small MIDI/recording apps
I use that are that way, but they don't have much of a visual
interface. They look like they are from the Windows 98 era.