On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday, 28 January 2023 09:17:35 GMT Michael wrote:
Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly
asking for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep it running.
I too am finding it hard to imagine life without gkrellm. I think it needs more
than just a maintainer though - it needs a replacement for upstream as well.
I"m actually the one who first heard that the original maintainer had
died. (I had written to him about some support issue, and got a belated
reply from his brother.) Upstream is not dead at all, the activity
level is just fairly low. I tried to post to -dev, but my message never
got through, not sure if it's because I'm not a dev or I made some other
error in sending. The homepage is at htttps://gkrellm.srcbox.net with
source at https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm.
The main problem is that is still uses gtk+2. They do have an open
issue about that, but most of the discussion has been on why it would be
so hard to upgrade. There is apparently a lot of fairly low-level
graphics stuff going on, and Bill himself (the original maintainer) said
something like the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult, but to go to
gtk+4 (I have no idea how far off this is) would essentially be a re-write.
Jack
