2010/5/10 Patrice Dumas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pertusus@free.fr">pertusus@free.fr</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">For the applications I know some comments<br></div>
* I am quite sure that gmanedit is not a manedit evolution. However, manedit<br>
is orphaned right now (though still not purged).<br>
* xdialog is build twice, once agains gtk+ and then against Gtk2. I think<br>
it would be nice to keep it that way, though you could also convince the<br>
current maintainer to keep only the Gtk2 stuff. also xdialog seems to be<br>
pretty dead upstream too, though I still haven't seen a perfect<br>
substitute (zenity is close, but not compatible).<br>
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There are no open bugs against gtk+ which is, in my opinion in favor<br>
of keeping it. One point against gtk+ is the lack of utf8 support. I don't<br>
know if there are other noteworthy differences.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div>In my point of view, the <span id="result_box" class="short_text"><span style="" title="">only convincing reason to keep gtk+ 1.2 in fedora is if there are some widely-used gtk+ applications that don't have better alternatives with modern toolkit. As you mentioned, </span></span>gtk+ is the lack of utf8 support, this is really bad for non-English users. Also, there may be potential security problems exists in gtk+ with dead upstream for 9 years which is really a long time. <br>
<br>The one thing I can confirm is most gtk+ applications with active upstream already ported their softwares to GTK2 or other modern toolkits, the only thing we should do is simply update those packages to the latest version.<br>
<br>e.g.<br><div class="im">bubblemon-0:1.46-10.fc12.x86_64<br>crossfire-client-0:1.11.0-3.fc12.x86_64<br>dillo-0:0.8.6-11.fc12.x86_64<br></div><div class="im">gcx-0:0.9.11-9.fc12.x86_64<br></div><div class="im">lazarus-0:0.9.26.2-4.fc12.x86_64<br>
</div>putty-0:0.60-5.fc12.x86_64<br>qiv-0:2.0-11.fc12.x86_64<br>swami-0:0.9.4-6.fc12.x86_64<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Regard.<br>Chen Lei<br>