On 16/03/2019 18:52, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 3/16/19 12:39 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote: >> On 16/03/2019 17:40, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: >>> On 3/16/19 8:33 AM, Roger Koehler via blfs-dev wrote: >>>> On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 3:39 AM Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> For porting lxde to GTK+3, I have decided to rebuild completely lfs/blfs >>>>> with >>>>> most recent versions. >>>> I'd be interested in knowing if Qt builds for you. If it does, I think >>>> I will follow suit and do a fresh rebuild. >>> I'm probably going to follow suit here as well. I wouldn't have discovered >>> that issue with Vala when updating GNOME to 3.32. I did notice that linux-5 >>> and gcc-8.3.0 had a major performance improvement the other day when I was >>> testing out systemd-241 (shaved 11 seconds off my SBU!). >>> >> OTOH, almost all the lxde packages show an increase in required disk space (a >> couple of packages show an increase of 30 %). I wonder if it has something to >> do with gcc-8.3 or with GTK+-3. >> >> To answer Roger's question: LXDE/GTK+3 has some annoying little defects >> (gpicview has no menus, the panel sometimes is not shown in full), which I'd >> like to iron out (if possible) before putting it in the book. So I'll >> eventually build Qt, but after I finish this ticket. >> >> Pierre > > This is just a hunch, but this sounds like a GTK+-3 thing. GTK+-3 added bloat > everywhere, and it does carry over to client-side applications. > > Please iron those issues out if you can.
I was not clear: if I can't, I'll not put that into the book. LXDE is a good small DE, no need to upset users at it. I had a bug in LXPanel (before > 0.10.0) that would cause a General Protection Fault in glib2 and > gobject-introspection. The bug would occur anytime I right-clicked on an > application on the taskbar and closed it, and then tried to switch > applications. Most of the time, the panel would not come back up properly, and > I would have to kill X and start again. This caused lots of downtime and > problems with productivity... bugs in a DE like that are never fun! > -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
