Hi Mika, On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:07:45PM +0200, Mika Fischer wrote:
> One thing that is still unsolved is if it is OK that the new celestia > pulls in KDE and QT libs. The old one was GTK2 as you know. > Personaly I'm inclined to do it because the KDE version has vastly > more features and the other versions are no longer actively > maintained upstream. Yeah, upstream is in love with the KDE frontend, and I think it's the one that's maintained the best. That's what our users should get. The GLUT frontend is ok, especially for demos on big screens and stuff. > Another thing is the GTK2 patches that were in your version. Did you do > them yourself? Did you forward them upstream? I sent them upstream at some point, but I never pushed too hard, partly because it wasn't my intention to become the upstream maintainer for the GTK+ 2 port/part. > Because upstream still uses GTK1 & Gnome 1.4 and according to the > developers has also no inclination to change that save anybody starts > working again on the GTK-Version (which seems unlikely). Yes. For the benefit of our users I think we should really go with the GLUT and KDE frontends and just throw the GTK+ thing out. If someone is interested they can just port the KDE thing to GNOME (take ideas and such), but AFAIUI that'd be no trivial ammount of work. > Other than that expect an upload within the month. Ah, nice. Marcelo
