gnome-python2-desktop needs various porting to GNOME / GTK+ 3

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:18 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, folks. I'm helping dmalcolm with the Python 2.7 rebuild at the
> moment. gnome-python2-desktop is failing to build for reasons which have
> nothing to do with Python 2.7 and everything to do with GTK+ 3 and GNOME
> 3.
> 
> It has modules for Brasero and Evince, both of which have now been
> ported to GTK+ 3. Trying to build gnome-python2-desktop with these
> modules enabled fails due to various changes between GTK+2 and GTK+3.
> g-p2-d also has gnome media profiles support: gnome-media-profiles has
> also been made into a new gnome-media-profiles-3.0 version which
> requires GTK+3 according to its pkgconfig file, so I suspect
> gnome-python2-desktop will need adjusting for that too.
> 
> For now I'm going to send David a build with the Brasero and Evince
> modules disabled and the gnome-media-profiles support also disabled.
> This will break a couple of apps - pybackpack and sugar-read - but
> that's presumably preferable to having gnome-python2-desktop broken
> entirely (and hence also gnome-applets). Obviously, though, this should
> be fixed properly - upstream, of course.

Consider all those deprecated, and use the new PyGI bindings for them
instead. You might also need to port the rest of the app if you want it
to work...