On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 03:33:35PM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:30:05AM -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > > > Still working on BLFS-7.2, wanting to install XFCE-4.10. Thunar- > > > volman requires libnotify, 0.7.6 required GTK3. I've got GTK2. > > > ISTR something I need requires GTK2, not 3, and I don't really want > > > to install both, if I even could. Does anybody know if I can > > > substitute an earlier version of libnotify which I presume I can > > > find with only a GTK2 dependency. > > > > Why would you not use both gtk2 and gtk3 ? Most non-cmake desktop > > packages still use gtk2, but the two will co-exist happily. > > Because I don't want to have to maintain two toolkits. That's already > decided. (See above) Ain't gonna happen. > > I'm going to try libnotify-0.5.2, the latest I found that doesn't > require GTK-3. Theoretically libnotify-0.[567].* should all provide the > same API--that's the way the numbering is supposed to work. I'll have > to see what configure checks for.
We are all about choice, but I often favour "making things less hard for myself", otherwise known as "taking the easy road". Actually, I don't recall any "maintenance" in gtk2 or gtk3 apart from one instance many years ago. Obviously, I don't count regular version updates for new builds as "maintenance", they are part of the normal churn. Personally, I loathe software which thinks it knows what I want to do, so I avoid Thunar-volman. But then, I also avoid thunar and all other file managers (konqueror gets built on my kde builds because it is part of one of the (big, bloated) packages, but I don't use it as a file manager). For mounting one (known) usb device at a time, I use simple udev rules and mount sticks or cameras or external drives by hand, mostly as a user - if root wants to mount a USB device for backups, he does so by hand). So, I hope your automounting from within the file manager lives up to your expectations, and that the old libnotify will be good enough. Checking the configure script before trying to build what might be an inadequate version of libnotify sounds like the right thing to do. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
