Hello amide maintainers, Following up on my previous mail to #885045 which was a reply to Gert.
This is what I found when glancing over the code. Once digging in you might find other things that also needs attention, but from the first look it doesn't seem to be very much work to do the porting. Hope this helps... The gconf related code is in ./src/amide_gconf.c and it contains 3 versions (Windows, OSX and native GConf) that provide amide_gconf_* API to the rest of the application code. I can't really help you out with Windows or OSX, so only speaking for the last/native implementation. The natural choice would be to port to GSettings, which is part of GLib. AIUI given that gconf is going to be removed, you'll have no way to migrate settings over since that needs gconf (or atleast not with the gnome provided conversion method). I would recommend a NEWS.Debian entry mentioning that user settings are lost and need to be reconfigured on upgrade (which is unfortunate, but this migration should really have happened around wheezy/old-old-stable already so not much we can do about this now). If you prefer to rename/change the amide_gconf_* name/interface the callers are found in ./src/amitk_preferences.c and ./src/ui_series.c. The usage of GnomeVFS is found in src/amide_gnome.c which boils down to amide_gnome_url_show_with_env(...) implemented using gnome_vfs_url_show_with_env (...). For a replacement of gnome_vfs_url_show* you might want to have a look at g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri (...). For an example see gnome-open.c in src:libgnome, in particular https://github.com/GNOME/libgnome/commit/65b35cbbc8d6021ee158a6657266bcbf0a9a81d2#diff-175f3047052f1df9261a604671a362f4 (where gnome_url_show is/was a libgnomeui wrapper around gnome_vfs_url_show). (The GAppInfo/GIO functionality is also part of GLib.) FWIW, GNOMEs migration guide is available at https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/migrating.html I see Jeremy Bicha also mentioned gnomecanvas, which I haven't looked into. That might warrant actually/finally looking into a full Gtk+ 3.x porting effort. Getting rid of gconf and gnomevfs usage would be a good start though and should likely be done before attempting a full Gtk+ 2->3 port. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
