GTK+ minimum version

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon May 5 21:16:07 CEST 2003


One should read :

but making a requirement on gtk+-2.2 [...] is definitely *not* the way
to go

Funny how I can type just the opposite of what I mean....

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 20:49, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 16:51, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > On Mon, 05, May 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > Hm, its possible, but I would not recommend it, since it would make
> > simple things a lot more complicated. If we really need the compat
> > with gtk 2.0, then I'll find a way to work around the gtk2.2 functions.
> 
> I'll have a look, but making a requirement on gtk+-2.2 only for
> libxfcegui4, more precisely just the systray is definitely the way to go
> (at least we managed to avoid such a requirement until now and I don't
> see why we would introduce it now).
> 
> A lot of ppl still run RH 8.0 that ships with gtk+-2.0, upgrading to
> gtk+-2.2 breaks gnome (due to a bug in libgnomeui-2.0)
> 
> Cheers,
-- 
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org>
http://www.xfce.org




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