Hi all
Sorry, I am aware of the fact that this has been discussed on the list
and I would have had the chance to raise my objections against the
removal of gtk-engines then, but I still would vote to re-integrate
gtk-engines (version 2.20.2) again.
My reasoning:
- While gtk2 will eventually go away, it still is used by a lot of
applications and even desktop environments in the book, such as gimp,
lxde, xfce.
- Version 2.20.2 compiles fine with latest gtk2 and should therefore
produce no real maintenance overhead for the book, as there will be no
new versions. The existing new versions 2.91.1 are a joke, as they
produce gtk3 engines, which are not supported anymore.
- Mist really looks very nice.
Of course it's fine with me if they stay out, I can get them myself, but
maybe there are other BLFS users, choosing lxde or xfce4 and are now
maybe stripped of the possibilty to beatify their desktop expierience.
I just compiled
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk-engines/2.20/gtk-engines-2.20.2.tar.bz2
after having installed latest gtk2 and gtk3, and the engines are nicely
installed as gtk2 engines and then selectable in lxappearance.
Cheers
Tim
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