Douglas R. Reno wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Tim Tassonis <[email protected]> wrote:
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
Hi Tim,
Its been removed from sysv, but its still in systemd (and it doesn't have
any more dependencies than it did in sysv).
You can find it (just that package) here:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/x/gtk-engines.html
We can put it back into sysv if there is someplace in the sysv book it is
referenced, even it as an optional or runtime dependency.
-- Bruce
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