Dang, I was utterly convinced to be the last person left on this planet still using xzgv nowadays! Imagine my surprise upon learning that there are other people on this boat. (Including celebrities. ☺)
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:29:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > As far as I can tell, there is no active upstream anymore, and I am not > aware of ongoing efforts to port xzgv to GTK3 or GTK4. Me, I was merely planning to keep a copy of libgtk2.0 around forever, but given how this could actually be of use to other people, I decided to take a stab at a porting attempt. (Despite my lack of experience with GTK. Not that this kind of thing has ever stopped me before.) What I have so far is more of a proof-of-concept at this point, in that it compiles, doesn't immediately crash, and appears to be able to perform at least the bare minimum: https://github.com/fbriere/xzgv/tree/gtk-3 Very little testing and code review has been done yet; my goal in making this pre-pre-pre-alpha version public right now is to show that there's still hope for this little package, and prevent any premature action such as a massive bug-closing if it can be avoided. (There's a lot left to do, so if you checkout this branch, expect it to be rebased a *lot*.) Also be warned that proper testing might take a while; although I use xzgv every day, that version includes several patches that would require porting/merging before I would consider switching over. (I'm hesitating between submitting these well-tested patches upstream *before* finalizing the port, or porting first and submitting these now-rebased no-longer-well-tested patches afterward. We'll see.)
