[manjaro-dev] libxfce4ui gtk3

[Philip Müller]

Well, this won't happen. GTK3 is also a dependency now for 
pacman-mirrors package. So you'll have gtk3 installed anyway ...

Am 29.12.2013 14:04, schrieb Rob McCathie:
> I just tested having gtk3 support enabled and compiling with gtk3 as a
> *makedepend*, then operating without GTK3 installed, and everything
> seems to work fine.
>
> So how about shifting gtk3 to makedepends= array?
>
> I realise this is immaterial to Manjaro's central goals and that the
> amount of Manjaro users who would care about being able to run Xfce
> without GTK3 installed will be tiny (likely only myself, and it's only
> for my laptop, and still just an experiment)... and I can easily just
> roll my own modded package.
>
> So yeah, just a suggestion, but i don't see any reason not to, since
> it still works fine without gtk3 present at runtime (from my tests
> anyway).
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>> Well, we have some XFCE 4.11 packages and enabling GTK3 in libxfce4ui let us
>> theme GTK3 more easily.
>>
>> Read the announcement:
>>
>> http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2013-September/032495.html
>>
>> To quote:
>>
>> Highlight are a GTK+-3 version of the library for applications that use
>> it and the improved version of the keyboard shortcut handling code.
>>
>> - Compile GTK+-3 version of libxfce4ui when possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 29.12.2013 03:47, schrieb Rob McCathie:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>> Just wondering, is there some particular reason you're passing
>>> --enable-gtk3 for Manjaro's libxfce4ui? (and hence depending on gtk3)
>>>
>>> http://git.manjaro.org/package-sources/extra/blob/master/libxfce4ui/PKGBUILD
>>>
>>> Does it actually do anything worthwhile for GTK3 apps on Xfce?
>>>
>>> I'd just started setting up a minimal Manjaro Xfce experiment on my
>>> laptop and went to install xfce4 and noted it wanted to pull gtk3,
>>> which I wasn't expecting because usually on Arch it wouldn't. It
>>> doesn't cause me any problems since I'll just roll my own libxfce4ui
>>> package, but i'm wondering if it actually needs to be that way for
>>> Manjaro anyway?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rob.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> manjaro-dev mailing list
>>> manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
>>> http://lists.manjaro.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/manjaro-dev
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> manjaro-dev mailing list
>> manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
>> http://lists.manjaro.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/manjaro-dev
> _______________________________________________
> manjaro-dev mailing list
> manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
> http://lists.manjaro.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/manjaro-dev