Hi,

The previous message thread on this topic some weeks ago had lots of
noise and no clear answer. Though I think it did raise some awareness
to the problem.

Recently I have seen many Mantis reports regarding GTK1 marked as
resolved (about 3-5 of mine in the last 7 days) without actually
fixing those bugs. Many of them were closed with comments goes
something like this: GTK1 cannot compile anymore and has been marked
deprecated. Well, if it cannot compile, then why not simply remove the
GTK1 option from the IDE wigetset list - it is clearly not being
maintained any more and is broken more often than not.

For those die-hard developers that must continue to use GTK1 -
continue using 0.9.28.3 until you can upgrade to GTK2. Life evolves,
so should your project. But it's rather pointless having a widgetset
marked "deprecated" (already a good starting point) in the widgetset
list, when it fact it cannot even be compiled any more.

I vote to simply remove it completely from the widgetset list. No
point in having something marked "deprecated" in Beta software either.
I think the Lazarus project is the first to ever do this (at least
from all project I have ever seen). :-)

-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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