writing system tray plugin using GTK1?

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Fri Aug 5 22:25:41 UTC 2011


On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:05:38 -0500 Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>
wrote:

> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > How about stuff that is written in GTK1? How would we compile these?
> 
> They would be obsoleted and removed from the distribution.
> 
> To find a list of such programs you can run:
> $ repoquery --whatrequires gtk+
> 
> Please note that the list of GTK1 programs is very small. Briefly 
> looking at the list looks like it is all dead software.

No, I understand that. My question was, if I had some software that
used GTK1, which I use, and would not like to spend time writing
for GTK2, would I still be able to compile using GTK2 or GTK3? Is GTK3/2
a superset of GTK1?

Many thanks,
Ranjan


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