New clock plugin in xfce4-panel trunk

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Mon Jul 9 12:13:14 CEST 2007


On 7/9/07, Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/9/07, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
> > On 7/9/07, Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm concerned about dependencies of the new clock. It's cool to use the
> > > latest features but will this limit who can install it?
> >
> > Please bottom-post... but, yes this will limit it to everyone who has
> > Gtk+ >= 2.8.
> > I don't know how this would behave on a i486, but I am sure someone
> > will tell us :p.
> >
> > >
> > > Grant
> > >
> > >
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> So we're looking into the future here. From a distribution standpoint it's
> not a big issue because a distributor will include the latest gtk+ but for
> someone who wants to download the graphical installer it's going to be hell.

Not really, since (correct me if I am wrong) Xfce 4.6 will depend on Gtk+ 2.10.
Because cairo is integrated in Gtk+ since version 2.8. This should not
be much of a problem.

>
> Grant

Stephan



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