xfce4mixer broken. rc1 delayed

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

My answer was quick, fairly busy and did not want to go to long
explanations.

>From a user standpoint, yes, why not everybody isn't using gtk+-2.2 btw?

But when you go to corporate desktops, well, it's a totally different
story. Users don't choose the distro, they don't have root access, they
can't install what they want.

Upgrading gtk+-2.0 to gtk+-2.2 on a Red Hat 8.0 that uses GNOME-2.0
requires to upgrade GNOME too, because gnomle libs from 2.0 had a bug
and upgrading gtk will cause all gnome apps to core straight away.

For all these reasons, it's mandatory that xfce is gtk+-2.0 compatible.
Of course, some functionalities work better with gtk+-2.2 (like startup
notification), but that won't prevent xfce from running of gtk+-2.0

That said, the plugin doesn't need to be rewritten, just fixed, that's
it. And it's already done here.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 13:54, Juraj Ziegler wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:42:21PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > hmm, and because, for instance, RedHat 8 comes with gtk 2.0.x by
> > default. Many people are still using that.
> 
> Hm, for instance other distros come with gtk 2.2.x and many people use
> them :). I'm lazy to calculate the exact numbers, but I guess the
> download size of xfce4 sources (or rpms) is greater than that of gtk
> 2.2.x packages.
> 
> I surely don't advocate to rewrite everything for gtk 2.2, definitely
> not. But I also don't understand why the xfce4-mixer plugin must be
> rewritten. It's one of the more useful plugins.
> 
> > But Olivier's answer is correct as well ;-)
> 
> :)
> 
> > On 12 Jul 2003 13:27:48 +0200
> > Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Because I said so.
> 
> Well, ok. Who am I to disagree? :) Just want to add, that saying 'when I
> started I used gtk 2.0 and I want to keep it compatible' would have
> sounded better.
> 
> [e]
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