ANNOUNCE: midori 0.4.7 released

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Sun Sep 23 00:32:35 CEST 2012


On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Christian Dywan
<christian at twotoasts.de> wrote:
>> I tried to go the other way around, and forported libgcr 2.32.1 from
>> Natty to Precise [1] (under gnome-keyring). But strangely Midori still
>> doesn't detect the library:
>> Checking for gcr-3-gtk2 >= 2.32             : no
>>
>> Does this approach make sense, and is it supposed to work? I assume
>> that the answer is no.
> I don't really know what you mean by forporting.
>
I simply tried to say, awkwardly, that I ported libgcr-2.32.1 from
Natty to Precise. I understand that this is a GTK+2 version of the
library. But Midori doesn't detect it when configuring (as expected, I
think).


> But let me try to be
> clearer:
>
> gcr-3 does *not* support GTK+2 currently. Midori will not use it because
> you can't use a GTK+3 API in a GTK+2 application.
>
> gcr-3-gtk2 is the GTK+2-specific name used in the patch I referred to.
>
Thanks. I'll likely publish Midori binaries on the PPA without support
for this.

Regards
Liviu


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