On Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:08:04 GMT Jack wrote: > 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.
My mistake. It's so long since I heard anything that I thought it must have died with Bill. > 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 -- Regards, Peter.
