Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Vine
On Fri, 17 May 2013 03:50:57 +0100 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: hi; yes, you most definitely can have gtk 2.x and gtk 3.x installed on the same machine, without them interfering with each other. the shared libraries and ancillary files are all parallel installable. what you

Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-17 Thread David Nečas
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: it's maintained only for critical bugs, or for platform support; no new feature, and no new API is *ever* going in to the gtk-2-24 branch. And that's what many 3rd party developers like. Absolutely no changes except critical bug

Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-17 Thread David Buchan
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:50 PM Subject: Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3? hi; yes, you most definitely can have gtk 2.x and gtk 3.x installed on the same machine, without them interfering with each other. the shared libraries and ancillary files are all parallel installable. what

Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-17 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: hi; On 17 May 2013 12:37, David Nečas y...@physics.muni.cz wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: it's maintained only for critical bugs, or for platform support; no new feature, and no

Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-17 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 17 May 2013 16:54, Tristan Van Berkom t...@gnome.org wrote: sure, let's work around bugs and peculiarities instead of, you know, fixing them. ;-) Right, but let's try to fix them without radically changing the set of particularities and introducing new bugs in the process ;-) that

Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; yes, you most definitely can have gtk 2.x and gtk 3.x installed on the same machine, without them interfering with each other. the shared libraries and ancillary files are all parallel installable. what you cannot do is using gtk 2.x *and* gtk 3.x at the same time, in the same process. if

Re: Can I install both GTK+2 and GTK+3?

2013-05-16 Thread Gary Kline
Hello people, Apologies if this is the wrong place to post my questions, but they involve Ubuntu 13.04 and GTK+ as well. A few weeks ago I finished porting my program for the speech-impaired to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is intended for the OLPC project and