xfce4mixer broken. rc1 delayed

Juraj Ziegler e at hq.sk
Sat Jul 12 14:06:34 CEST 2003


On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:56:02PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I was just curious. 

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