On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 12:31 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jim Henderson posted on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:55:07 +0000 as excerpted: > > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:50:50 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Actions are not working in Pan built from git (built with gtk3). > >> Articles are not made read or deleted according to the Action settings. > >> Works well in 0.139. There's also some resizing issues. > > > > There are a few discussions here about the resizing issues - that seems > > to be a gtk3 quirk of some sort. General recommendation is to use > gtk2, > > from what I recall. > > > > I think I also ran into the same action issues with a gtk3 build - gtk2 > > does seem to work in that regard as well.
I rebuilt with gtk2 but still the same problem with actions: I would like articles with score -9999 to be deleted and made read. They are deleted but there's still a new unread article indication there that I can't get rid of. > > Just seconding the gtk2 recommendation. Pan's original support for gtk3 > was added some years ago, now, if I'm correct, back when Charles Kerr was > still active as pan's lead dev (tho whether he created them or someone > else did and he simply merged the patches I don't know), but the gtk2 > version has always been recommended, and I'm not sure the gtk3 version > has even been kept current -- it may in fact be subject to some level of > bitrot by now. > > With distros now beginning to talk of deprecating gtk2, that may have to > change at some point, but in practical terms I don't think we really need > to worry until distro's firefox/iceweasel packages are no longer > dependent on gtk2. Once /that/ happens we better focus rather sharply on > getting pan's gtk3 version back in shape, but until then, no immediate > worries. > > Talking about the firefox question... every once in awhile I check the > firefox gtk3 status, and I guess firefox actually builds with gtk3 > without too many issues these days. But I've no hint on when upstream > mozilla will switch its binary firefox build to gtk3, nor have I the > foggiest how close various distros are to doing so with their own builds, > other than my own distro, gentoo, which seems to still be gtk2 based ATM, > but the gentoo/gnome and gentoo/gtk project folks are starting to get > serious about preferring gtk3 in general now, so it's probably a matter > of time. Anybody else have any idea about the other distros? Any distro > actually distributing a gtk3 version of firefox yet, or actively planning > to do so in a concrete timeframe? What about upstream mozilla-firefox > binary builds? Any concrete time frame for a switch there, yet? > > Because here I have three big gtk2-based packages I'd be loath to try to > do without, pan, firefox and claws-mail. Firefox is obviously the big > one on the block, so no big deal until it switches, and we're obviously > discussing pan here, but that does leave claws-mail, and unlike the two, > I've very little idea at all what their porting to other than gtk2 status > is, or even whether they're considering going qt4/5 instead of gtk3, as a > few projects are apparently doing. I keep meaning to go check and see if > it's covered in a claws-mail FAQ or if they have a list where it may have > been discussed, and where I can post a question about it if I don't see > it in the list archives, but there's apparently a shortage of rounded > tuits at the moment, as I've not gotten mine with the claws-mail porting > status check label yet. =:^\ > -- //Christian Dropbox - Your stuff anywhere! - https://db.tt/U8MqkVR _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
