libxfce4gui (deprecated)

[Nick Schermer]

On 2012-04-03 10:26, Stephan Arts wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Andreas Müller
> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:
>>> On 2012-04-03 04:12, Ahau @porteus.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on compiling 4.9 for testing.  I must say, great job, 
>>>> devs!
>>>>
>>>> I am having an issue getting all of the panel plugins working,
>>>> however, because they appear to have a hard dependency on 
>>>> libxfce4gui,
>>>> which has apparently been deprecated.  Further, this package no 
>>>> longer
>>>> compiles against 4.9 (it compiled fine against 4.8).  Does anyone 
>>>> have
>>>> a workaround for this, do we need to wait for goodies-devs to 
>>>> update
>>>> their code for 4.10, or am I a moron, and the only one with this
>>>> issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, it does not build anymore because of removed code in 
>>> libxfce4util. I'll
>>> release a new version for 4.10 later.
>>>
>>> For now, you can use the patch below to make it work again:
>>> 
>>> http://git.xfce.org/xfce/libxfcegui4/patch/?id=9042e70bf7c8266aef059114d27ec1764fc41466
>>>
>> Isn't 4.10 the time to say goodbye to libxfce4gui?
>>
>> As mentioned before (sorry for the noise) for some plugins there are
>> patches waiting:
>>
>> cpufreq: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8051
>> datetime: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8064
>> eyes: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8074
>> diskperf: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8099
>>
>> Others are found in git but are not yet released
>>
>> weather: 
>> http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-weather-plugin/commit/?id=d776b317fd3b6523490ecc2159d693485d69c01c
>> genmon: 
>> http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-genmon-plugin/commit/?id=84b188903d33db6e3f41b50cf8fb1d675c0882e7
>> cpugraph: 
>> http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin/commit/?id=008b9c3b44351909a0063726179f3f8246c00652
>
> I agree with andreas, just let libxfcegui4 die.

No we can't do that. It will die when we port to gtk3.

It will get a new release with the version 4.10.0, but I won't ship it 
with Xfce 4.10 or any of the pre-releases.

Nick