On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 06:08:43PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Adriaan de Groot wrote on 2019/01/03 14:28: > > Niclas wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 3 January 2019 13:00:02 CET [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > Firefox and Chromium both depend on GTK3, so it's highly likely that a > > > > typical desktop user has GTK3 installed. > > > > > > +1, GTK3 is probably the best choice. > > > > > > As a side note, it looks like libreoffice defaults to GTK2 as well, > > > perhaps it should be switched to GTK3 also? > > > > As a not-really-GTK-using person, I still have both GTK2 and GTK3 installed > > on > > my system running KDE Plasma. Not for vim though: > > > > Installed packages to be REMOVED: > > gtk2-2.24.32 > > fontforge-20170731 > > mftrace-1.2.18_1 > > > > Installed packages to be REMOVED: > > gtk3-3.22.30_4 > > gpsd-3.17 > > > > I'm a fan of pushing for toolkit migration, so reducing the number of things > > that pull in GTK2 is a good thing. > > > > > > So if we're expressing hopes that ports might be made GTK2-free (by porting > > to > > GTK3 for instance) then I'd hope that fontforge gets that treatment, too. > > From > > looking at the source repo, I don't think the GTK2 option actually works > > (and > > the comments suggest it's not all that good anyway). In the configure.ac it > > looks like there are spelling-inconsistencies between > > fontforge_can_use_gtk=yes > > and, e.g,, > > FONTFORGE_ARG_ENABLE_GDK > > > > (mtrace depends on fontforge, so fixing fontforge would clean GTK2 off my > > system) > > It is not so simple. What works for you doesn't work for somebody else. I am > running KDE4 with QT4 but some applications use GTK2 as the only option or I > set them to use GTK2 because GTK2 has better theme integration to KDE4 / QT > style than GTK3 (in my personal case). > And, for example, Total Commander has two choices - QT or GTK2. I tried it > to build with QT but it failed so I switched to GTK2 and it builds fine. > So in my current situation I am glad we have GTK2 and GTK3 and all my > applications are working (better with GTK2 than GTK3). And having both GTK > versions installed is not a big problem. Their size is relatively small > compared to apps like browsers, libreoffice etc.
KDE4 is not in the ports tree anymore (since January 01), and Qt4 is marked to go at 2019-03-15. > Miroslav Lachman > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" -- Best Regards, Alexandre C. Guimarães. https://bitbucket.org/rigoletto-freebsd/
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