[Bug 222521] Review Request: IceWM - Lightweight Window Manager.

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Summary: Review Request: IceWM -  Lightweight Window Manager.


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222521





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2007-02-17 04:18 EST -------
(In reply to comment #49)
> IceWM 1.2.30-12.fc6 depends on obsolete libraries glib 1.x, gtk+ 1.x and imlib
> 1.x.  All this can be avoided if IceWM is compiled against Xpm library, which is
> not obsolete.  This can be done by passing --with-xpm on the configure command
> line.  That's how I have been compiling IceWM for many years, and it has always
> worked fine for me.  I believe it would only make any difference if images other
> than Xpm are used in the themes, which in not the case for any theme I know.

imlib is in fedora, and we need to handle png, jpeg at least for menu 
icons, so I don't think using xpm over imlib would be a good idea. And even 
if it is for themes it seems to me that imlib is superior; besides I 
guess (hope) that libxpm is in maintainance mode for many years now.

> Alternatively, please consider icewm-1.3.0, which uses gtk+ 2.x and supports
> NET_WM_ICON.  It's working just fine for me.  I don't think stable/unstable
> really matters for extras, especially if the newer version is stable de facto
> and doesn't bring obsolete dependencies.

unstable/stable doesn't matter for fedora devel (rawhide) but matters for
the other releases. And don't forget that what is in Fedora 6 could land
in EPEL. 

In the case of icewm 1.2.30 versus 1.3.0 I had a look at the diff it is huge,
although most seems to be simple changes. This could be a case where it
could be a good idea to use 1.3.0, not for the new dependency, in my 
opinion, but to give more test coverage for the new icewm version. In my 
opinion this should left to the maintainer decision since both have 
advantages and inconvenients.

Maybe it depends on how Gilboa is near from upstream. Another possibility
would be to keep icewm-1.2.30 for older branches and use 1.3.0 in devel to
have it for fedora 7. And a last possibility would be update it right
after the fedora 7 release to have more time to test it during the whole 
fedora 8 devel.

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