On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 11:24 AM Owen Taylor <otaylor(a)redhat.com> wrote:
GLib 2 was quite compatible with GLib 1 - there were lots of
additions
but few breaking changes. But it looks like the dependency in
surf-geometry is a GTK 1 user interface (written in C++ with a bit of
custom glue, with Xlib usage mixed in.) and a GTK 1 to GTK 2 port is
more work. Not that hard for someone experienced in the GTK *of that
time* , but at this point, it would be like translating Chaucer into
Elizabethan English. And porting to GTK 3 or GTK 4 would be a bigger
job. I think this pretty clearly falls into the "if someone cared
about this GUI, they would have ported it from GTK 1 long ago" bucket.
But it also looks like it could just be disabled without affecting
anything else.
That's the conclusion I came to as well. Paulo, will you be sad if we
turn off the surf-geometry GUI?
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Jerry James
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