4.2.2 installer and gtk-xfce engine

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Xavier Otazu wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> Installers of 4.2.x versions do not contain the gtk xfce engine.
> Users has to download it, but the question is from where?

The gtk theme engine has to be packaged separately, because it must be
installed to the same prefix as gtk to work properly.  I guess Olivier
didn't package it.  (Benny, who wrote the installer and usually does
the packaging for it, is MIA.)

> From sourceforge, there is only available the engine installer from
> version 4.2.1.1 (17/3/2005) but in
> www.us.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.2.2/src/ there is the source file
> (engine version 2.2.7). Is this source equivalent to the engine in
> the sourceforge engine installer?
>
> The soultion is easy: install from the last source file, but I
> think it is a bit confusing for users.

Yes, for now you'll need to compile and install it from source (using
the 4.2.2 tar.gz), making sure to pass
- --prefix=`pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --variable=prefix`
to the configure script.

    -brian


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