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Re: Abysmal state of GTK build
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Tim Cross |
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Re: Abysmal state of GTK build |
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Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:25:14 +1000 |
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > > Have we tried patching GTK to add workarounds -- for instance,
> > > defining an "exit function" hook to call instead of `_exit'?
> > > We could distribute such patches, and they might accept the patches.
>
> > They insist that it is unsafe to call anything except for _exit, because
> > it is not safe to save files after the display server goes down.
>
> There are various ways users can make such modifications.
> We can add those to the list of possible options to compare.
> This is for GTK 3, right?
>
> One pwrtinent question is, how bad would the problems of GTK 3 be if
> we imagine a few of them have been fided this way? Would they be bad
> enough that we would want to reject GTK 3 over them anyway?
>
> There is a modified version of GNOME 2, which I suppose includes GTK
> 2. It is called Maté. (The accent on "ë is incorrect Spanish, but it
> is correct English.) It is no longer maintained, but it is probably a
> better starting point than GNOME 2 itself. I use it, because it is
> included in Trisquel. I presume it contains a version of GTK 2.
>
> If newer versions of GTK are lousy, and the other options also have
> bad problems, maybe this is the best.
I think mate is still maintained. Both Ubuntu and Fedora have current
versions of their distribution which is based on it. I think cinnamon is
also based on GTK2?
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, (continued)
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/08/21
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/22
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Po Lu, 2022/08/22
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/23
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Po Lu, 2022/08/24
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, tomas, 2022/08/24
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/25
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build,
Tim Cross <=
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, tomas, 2022/08/24
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Tim Cross, 2022/08/24
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Po Lu, 2022/08/24
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/25
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Tim Cross, 2022/08/26
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Richard Stallman, 2022/08/28
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Po Lu, 2022/08/28
- Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Tim Cross, 2022/08/28
Re: Abysmal state of GTK build, Stefan Kangas, 2022/08/21