On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 08:04 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Richard Shann > <[email protected]> wrote: > The last build (19th Dec) was against Gtk 3.16.7 > I tested the zip version, and running it under GDB I can see a > whole new > raft of failures which look like further developments in the > Gtk3 > program. (I am building against Gtk 3.14.5 on Debian Jessie > and I get a > whole slew of deprecations, but the program is reasonably > functional). > Two of the failures with the current zip code are that the > Denemo > Display fails to draw anything past the background color, > (which seems > to be due to a failure to create a pixbuf), and the menus are > all drawn > with pale grey lettering on a pale grey background (ie > invisible) until > a menu item is selected (which I guess is due to the adwaita > theme > shipped with this Gtk). > > I think the way forward is to build against Gtk2. The only (*) > functionality we will lose is being able to make palettes that > have more > than one row/column. That's not essential, and could be worked > around if > we were going to stick with Gtk2. I can't see how we can > continue to > follow Gtk3 without dropping Gtk2 as they are now getting too > different. > If someone would like to develop a Gtk3 branch that would be > good, it > will involve a lot of change in the code structure, a lot of > it to the > good - getting rid of ancient stuff which has its origins in > Gtk1). > > > > As you discovered, evince (the gtk2 version), is not in debian based > distros.
So Johann's email helps here - libatrilview.dev *is* in the Debian Jessie repository (if I have got things quite right, I have added to my sources.list and I have heard that MATE have started on GTK3 so I can't be exactly sure). So could we go to GTK2 with libatrilview? Richard _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
